"posttruth" meaning in English

See posttruth in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Adjective

Head templates: {{en-adj|-}} posttruth (not comparable)
  1. Alternative form of post-truth Tags: alt-of, alternative, not-comparable Alternative form of: post-truth
    Sense id: en-posttruth-en-adj-hCWI22fl Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 50 50 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 51 49 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 50 50

Noun

Head templates: {{en-noun|-}} posttruth (uncountable)
  1. Alternative form of post-truth Tags: alt-of, alternative, uncountable Alternative form of: post-truth
    Sense id: en-posttruth-en-noun-hCWI22fl Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 50 50 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 51 49 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 50 50
{
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "posttruth (uncountable)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "post-truth"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "50 50",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "51 49",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "50 50",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2001 August, Nathaniel Kohn, Y.S. Lee, “Faces/Off: Challenges to Postcolonial Theory Along the Hong Kong-Hollywood Axis”, in Cultural Studies↔ Critical Methodologies, volume 1, number 3:",
          "text": "Indeed, in what follows, we entertain several tenuous interpretations of the film, ones that display prominent aspects of postcolonial theory and perhaps even address some sort of posttruth in their microscopic readings but ones that, through excess essentially, mock such applications of postcolonial theory, as they question the warping power of theory in general.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2015 June, Jayson Harsin, “Regimes of Posttruth, Postpolitics, and Attention Economies”, in Communication, Culture & Critique, volume 8, number 2:",
          "text": "Across multiple societies, we see a shift from regimes of truth (ROT) to “regimes of posttruth”(ROPT) characterized by proliferating “truth markets.”",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Alternative form of post-truth"
      ],
      "id": "en-posttruth-en-noun-hCWI22fl",
      "links": [
        [
          "post-truth",
          "post-truth#English"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "alt-of",
        "alternative",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "posttruth"
}

{
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "posttruth (not comparable)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "post-truth"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "50 50",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "51 49",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "50 50",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2013, Steven Maras, Objectivity in Journalism, →ISBN:",
          "text": "Hartley uses the term 'posttruth society' to characterize a binary-oriented journalism in which 'reason and truth are not the guiding principles' but rather 'adversarial visions' that pit 'we' groups against 'they' groups (1992: 217).",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Alternative form of post-truth"
      ],
      "id": "en-posttruth-en-adj-hCWI22fl",
      "links": [
        [
          "post-truth",
          "post-truth#English"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "alt-of",
        "alternative",
        "not-comparable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "posttruth"
}
{
  "categories": [
    "English adjectives",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English nouns",
    "English uncomparable adjectives",
    "English uncountable nouns",
    "Pages with 1 entry",
    "Pages with entries"
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "posttruth (uncountable)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "post-truth"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2001 August, Nathaniel Kohn, Y.S. Lee, “Faces/Off: Challenges to Postcolonial Theory Along the Hong Kong-Hollywood Axis”, in Cultural Studies↔ Critical Methodologies, volume 1, number 3:",
          "text": "Indeed, in what follows, we entertain several tenuous interpretations of the film, ones that display prominent aspects of postcolonial theory and perhaps even address some sort of posttruth in their microscopic readings but ones that, through excess essentially, mock such applications of postcolonial theory, as they question the warping power of theory in general.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2015 June, Jayson Harsin, “Regimes of Posttruth, Postpolitics, and Attention Economies”, in Communication, Culture & Critique, volume 8, number 2:",
          "text": "Across multiple societies, we see a shift from regimes of truth (ROT) to “regimes of posttruth”(ROPT) characterized by proliferating “truth markets.”",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Alternative form of post-truth"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "post-truth",
          "post-truth#English"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "alt-of",
        "alternative",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "posttruth"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "English adjectives",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English nouns",
    "English uncomparable adjectives",
    "English uncountable nouns",
    "Pages with 1 entry",
    "Pages with entries"
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "posttruth (not comparable)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "post-truth"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2013, Steven Maras, Objectivity in Journalism, →ISBN:",
          "text": "Hartley uses the term 'posttruth society' to characterize a binary-oriented journalism in which 'reason and truth are not the guiding principles' but rather 'adversarial visions' that pit 'we' groups against 'they' groups (1992: 217).",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Alternative form of post-truth"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "post-truth",
          "post-truth#English"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "alt-of",
        "alternative",
        "not-comparable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "posttruth"
}

Download raw JSONL data for posttruth meaning in English (2.6kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-04-02 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-03-21 using wiktextract (db8a5a5 and fb63907). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.