truehood

English

Etymology

From true +‎ -hood, modelled after falsehood. Compare Middle English treuhede, trewhede (“faithfulness; the quality of being in the right”, literally “true-hood”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈtɹuːˌhʊd/

Noun

truehood (countable and uncountable, plural truehoods)

1. (countable) a true statement; a truth.
   • 2011, Robert Littell, Mother Russia:

     “What about disseminating truehoods that also happen to be derogatory?”

2. (uncountable) the property of being true; truth.
   • 1959, Curtis Bok, Star Wormwood, page 56:

     It is part good, part evil, part falsehood, part truehood.