post-truth en · ADJ
Pronunciation
- /ˌpəʊst ˈtɹuːθ/ (UK)
Etymology
From post- + truth.
Meanings
- (not-comparable) Beyond or superseding the importance of truth.
- (not-comparable) Pertaining to an era or situation when truth is no longer significant, relevant, or expected.
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(derogatory, not-comparable, usually) Uncaring or disregarding factual accuracy.
A chapter about the possibility of a “post-truth world” exacerbated by the rise of artificial intelligence quotes Lee McIntyre, a research fellow at the Center for Philosophy and History of Science at Boston University.
2026 May 19, Benjamin Mullin, “Book on Truth in the Age of A.I. Contains Quotes Made Up by A.I.”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:In Christianity Today, columnist Charles Colson bemoaned our “post-truth society,” which produces liars such as Tawana Brawley, David Brock, and Stephen Ambrose.
2003, Craig Detweiler, Barry Taylor, A Matrix of Meanings (Engaging Culture): Finding God in Pop Culture, →ISBN, page 2003:Avoiding a cacophony is a worthy objective, because Australia has managed to largely sidestep the post-truth hellscape the US has endured during the pandemic because politicians, by and large, have chosen to inhabit a universe of shared facts and common messages.
2021 February 2, Katharine Murphy, “Scott Morrison must heed the lesson of Donald Trump and slap down Craig Kelly”, in The Guardian:He is, he claims, post-God, post-reality, post-truth, post-meaning, post- history, post-world, post-Western […]
1989, The Month, page 281:Victims or exiles should not repeat any longer what everybody already knows in the new 'post-truth' world order – that they are among numerous contemporary victims of war crimes and military violence […]
1995, Collegium Antropologicum, volume 19, page 20:In the post-truth world, the people are saturated by a plurality of discourses that are struggling for the consent of the audience, the difference being that the explosion of messages that characterises modernity is no longer stamped with the 'authority' of their authors.
2001, Roy Ascott, Reframing consciousness: art, mind and technology, page 293:Clearly quite a lot of journalism is post-truth . . . More important, perhaps, is journalism's post-truth tendency . . . to make no propositions for which there is a possible 'true/false' response.
2001, John Beynon, Masculinities And Culture, →ISBN:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| posttruth | alternative | lexicographic |
Deriveds
post-truth politics · post-truthism
Translations (7)
de postfaktisch (post-truth) · cmn 後真相的 /后真相的 (post-truth) · id pascakebenaran (post-truth) · fi totuudenjälkeinen (post-truth) · da postfaktuel (post-truth) · scn post-virità (post-truth) · it postverità (post-truth)