Truthlike vs Truthy - What's the difference?
truthlike | truthy | Synonyms |
(obsolete) Faithful; true.
* {{quote-book, c. 1800, J. H. Colls, Theodore
, passage=You […] are afraid Theodore your sweetheart shouldn't prove truthy .}}
(US, colloquial) Only superficially true; that is asserted or felt instinctively to be true, with no recourse to facts.
* 2011 , (Steven Pinker), The Better Angels of Our Nature , Penguin 2012, p. 595:
(computing, programming) Evaluating to true in a Boolean context.
* 2012 , David Flanagan, JavaScript Pocket Reference (page 40)
Truthlike is a synonym of truthy.
As adjectives the difference between truthlike and truthy
is that truthlike is having the appearance of truth while truthy is (obsolete) faithful; true.truthy
English
Adjective
(er)- Historians today point out that each of these ringing assertions was, at best, truthy .
- In JavaScript, any expression or statement that expects a boolean value will work with a truthy or falsy value, so the fact that
&&does not always evaluate totrueorfalsedoes not cause practical problems.
