Truthiness:

• truthiness:

• [Mr. Steven Colbert]: ‘Truthiness is ‘What I say is right, and [nothing] anyone else says could possibly be true’. It’s not only that I _feel_ it to be true, but that _I_ feel it to be true. There’s not only an emotional quality, but there’s a selfish quality’. [bracketed insertion and italics in original]. ~ (January 25th, 2006; www.avclub.com/content/node/44705).

Incidentally, that word has meant the same, since at least 1832, as what truthfulness means:

• ‘truthiness: n. truthfulness (rare).

Truthiness is a habit, like every other virtue. There I hold by the Peripatetics. Noctes Ambrosianae, Feb., 1832’. ~ (Century Dictionary).

• truthiness (n.; informal): (of a belief, etc.) the quality of being considered to be true because of what the believer wishes or feels, regardless of the facts; {[e.g.]: “They generally begin by knowing they are lying, but eventually become convinced of the ‘truthiness’ of their supposition”. (Sunday Times; 2017)}. [curly-bracketed insert added] ~ (Collins English Dictionary).

• truthiness (n.; informal): (of a belief, etc.) the quality of being considered to be true because of what the believer wishes or feels, regardless of the facts. ~ (Collins English Dictionary).

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