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truth quotient

truth quotient noun: the degree to which someone or something reflects fact rather than fiction; the degree to which something reflects reality.

Noun

truth quotient (plural truth quotients)

  1. The degree to which someone or something reflects fact rather than fiction; the degree to which something reflects reality.
    • Religious beliefs are not born of the same conditions through which knowledge is established. Thus, in the technical philosophical sense, they carry no truth quotients.1995, Walter H. Capps, Religious Studies: The Making of a Discipline, →ISBN, page 249
    • It might be best, at this point, to dispense entirely with questions of the truth quotient of documentary films that are propped on misleading binarisms such as fiction/non-fiction, realism/fantasy, true/false.2005, Gary D. Rhodes, John Parris Springer, Docufictions, →ISBN

Forms of truth quotient

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Questions about truth quotient

What does truth quotient mean?
Truth quotient means the degree to which someone or something reflects fact rather than fiction; the degree to which something reflects reality.
What part of speech is truth quotient?
Truth quotient is a noun.
What is the plural of truth quotient?
The plural of truth quotient is truth quotients.

Words near truth quotient in the dictionary

  1. truth nukes
  2. Truth or Consequences
  3. truth or dare
  4. truth quark
  5. truth quarks
  6. truth quotient
  7. truth quotients
  8. truth sera
  9. truth serum
  10. truth serums
  11. truth squad

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