truehood
nounUK /ˈtɹuːˌhʊd/
Etymology From true + -hood, modelled after falsehood. Compare Middle English treuhede, trewhede (“faithfulness; the quality of being in the right”, literally “true-hood”).
1
a true statement; a truth.
- “What about disseminating truehoods that also happen to be derogatory?”2011, Robert Littell, Mother Russia:
2
the property of being true; truth.
- It is part good, part evil, part falsehood, part truehood.1959, Curtis Bok, Star Wormwood, page 56: