truehood

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UK/ˈtɹuːˌhʊd/

noun

a true statement; a truth.

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Meanings

nountruehood (countable and uncountable, plural truehoods)

plural truehoods

  1. countablea true statement; a truth.

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

    2011, Robert Littell, Mother Russia
  2. uncountablethe property of being true; truth.

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

    1959, Curtis Bok, Star Wormwood, page 56

Origin

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

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APA

truehood. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/truehood

MLA

“truehood.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/truehood. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “truehood,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/truehood.

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