facthood
facthood noun: the quality of being factual; factuality.
Noun
facthood (usually uncountable, plural facthoods)
- The quality of being factual; factuality.
- Once we have captured its impact within our words and feelings, these facts may not differ in their "facthood" from other, discussable facts.1999, Dan Bar-On, The Indescribable and the Undiscussable, page 155
- There are other evolutionary hypotheses that have not yet garnered sufficient evidence and whose "facthood" is still in question, especially ones having to do with particular pathways of descent or with the relative importance of natural selection versus drift, for example, as the cause of some...2000, Robert T. Pennock, Tower of Babel: The Evidence against the New Creationism, page 177
Examples of facthood in a sentence
- The popular press is awash in facthoods.2007, Howard Burman, Paradise by Paradise:
- The test is this: formulate schemata with regard to truth, facthood, and representation of the same logical form.2011, John Greco, The Oxford Handbook of Skepticism, page 186:
Forms of facthood
| plural | facthoods |
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Origin of facthood
From fact + -hood.
Questions about facthood
- What does facthood mean?
- Facthood means the quality of being factual; factuality.
- How do you use facthood in a sentence?
- The popular press is awash in facthoods.
- What part of speech is facthood?
- Facthood is a noun.
- What is the plural of facthood?
- The plural of facthood is facthoods.
Words near facthood in the dictionary
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