-truth-

"-truth-" is the morpheme for the semantical meaning of being real or having substance.


 * "Truth"
 * "Truthfulness" loosely means "truth in action or speech"
 * "Truthlessness" loosely means "no truth in action or speech" (like claims of President Bill Clinton regarding Monica)
 * "Truthiness" loosely means "truth of faith" (like speeches of President George W. Bush)
 * "Untruthiness" loosely means "truth of hope" (like speeches of Senator Barack Obama)
 * "Truthibution"
 * "Truthiverse"

Truth
As a free morpheme, in the usage of concrete noun form, "truth" refers to the state of being the case of real things and events.

Truthfulness
In this common abstract noun form, "truthfulness" refers to the good faith in the intent of one's action and the honesty of one's speech.

Truthlessness
Understood as the opposite of "truthfulness", "truthlessness" refers to the bad faith in the intent of one's action and the dishonesty of one's speech.

Truthiness
Invented by the great wordsmith Dr. Stephen Colbert, "truthiness" refers to what one knows to be true in one's gut. Being the lesser common abstract noun from of "truth", "truthiness" gained significant uses in political discourse after its invention to describe the reality that is intuitively known by real Americans without regard to liberal logic or reason.

Untruthiness
Understood as the opposite of "truthiness", "untruthiness" refers to what one knows to be true without consulting one's gut. It attributes to what ought to be in the hope of oneself rather than what is known to be truth in the gut of oneself. (See Hopemonger)