According to an online survey by dictionary publisher Merriam-Webster, the word that best summed up 2006 is: truthiness – “truth that comes from the gut, not books.
Truthiness made its debut on Comedy Central’s The Colbert Report in October 2005.
This is not the first award for the word – it was also awarded the 16th annual Word of the Year (2005) by the American Dialect Society, who defined it as “the quality of preferring concepts or facts one wishes to be true, rather than concepts or facts known to be true.”