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🇯🇵Japanese Source WordCode: JA

ポスト真実

Pronunciation / Transliteration: posuto shinjitsu

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Post-truth/ˈpoʊstˌtruːθ/
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🇯🇵 Example Sentence in Japanese:

"ポスト真実の政治が世界中で問題視されている。"

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As adjective
  1. 1

    Relating to or denoting circumstances in which objective facts are less influential in shaping public opinion than appeals to emotion and personal belief.

    "We currently live in a post-truth era where viral narratives often overshadow verified reporting."
As noun
  1. 1

    The state or period in which objective facts are marginalized or rendered secondary to emotional resonance.

    "The rise of social media algorithms has accelerated the descent into post-truth."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Formed in English by combining the prefix 'post-' (denoting coming after or later than) with the noun 'truth', first coined by playwright Steve Tesich in a 1992 essay in The Nation. The term gained widespread prominence in political discourse and was named Oxford Dictionaries Word of the Year in 2016 following global political shifts.

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