Ladies and gentlemen, Merriam-Webster's Word of the Year 2006 goes to... truthiness! The 182-year-old word was brought to life by Stephen Colbert, the sexiest man living picked by Salon. The word is based on votes from M-W's Web site visitors. Can you hear the cheers?

Hmmm...truthiness hasn't been added into M-W's online dictionary. Looking it up would go to an error page. M-W borrows the definition from American Dialect Society, which chose truthiness as the 16th annual Word of the Year back in 2005.

truthiness (noun)
1 : "truth that comes from the gut, not books" (Stephen Colbert, Comedy Central's "The Colbert Report," October 2005)
2 : "the quality of preferring concepts or facts one wishes to be true, rather than concepts or facts known to be true" (American Dialect Society, January 2006)

Update: I enjoy this pretty much. [via The Shifted Librarian]