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Meaning of "wikiality" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD WIKIALITY

Coined by Stephen Colbert from wiki + reality, alluding to the inaccuracies allegedly reported as facts in the online encyclopedia Wikipedia.
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PRONUNCIATION OF WIKIALITY

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF WIKIALITY

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Wikiality is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES WIKIALITY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Cultural impact of The Colbert Report

The Colbert Report, which premiered in American cable television on October 17, 2005, has had a cultural impact since its inception, when the show introduced truthiness as a word. Issues in and references to American and world culture are attributed to the character played by Stephen Colbert, who calls his followers the Colbert Nation.

Definition of wikiality in the English dictionary

The definition of wikiality in the dictionary is a version of facts which is agreed to be true, but which may not coincide with objective reality.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE WIKIALITY

wiglike
wigmaker
Wigner
Wigtownshire
wigwag
wigwagged
wigwagger
wigwagging
wigwam
wiki
wikitorial
wikiup
Wilberforce
wilco
Wilcoxon Mann-Whitney test
Wilcoxon matched-pairs signed-ranks test
Wilcoxon test
wild
wild and woolly
wild basil

WORDS THAT END LIKE WIKIALITY

ability
air quality
augmented reality
confidentiality
equality
functionality
homosexuality
hospitality
in reality
inequality
locality
mortality
municipality
nationality
originality
personality
quality
reality
sexuality
speciality
spirituality

Synonyms and antonyms of wikiality in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «wikiality» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF WIKIALITY

Find out the translation of wikiality to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of wikiality from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «wikiality» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

wikiality
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

Wikiality
570 millions of speakers

English

wikiality
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

wikiality
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

wikiality
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

wikiality
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

wikiality
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

wikiality
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

wikiality
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Wikialiti
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

wikiality
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

wikiality
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

wikiality
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Wikiality
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

wikiality
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

wikiality
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

विकिपीडिया
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

wikiality
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

wikiality
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

wikiality
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

wikiality
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

wikiality
30 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Greek

wikiality
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

wikiality
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

wikiality
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

wikiality
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of wikiality

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «WIKIALITY»

The term «wikiality» is normally little used and occupies the 148.250 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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Principal search tendencies and common uses of wikiality
List of principal searches undertaken by users to access our English online dictionary and most widely used expressions with the word «wikiality».

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about wikiality

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «WIKIALITY»

Discover the use of wikiality in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to wikiality and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Satire TV: Politics and Comedy in the Post-Network Era
42 Most important, here, Colbert calls attention to the Bush administration's cooption of wikiality: its continuous campaign to manipulate public perception. In an age of wikiality, he argues, “you may come from generations of Connecticut ...
Jonathan Gray, Jeffrey P. Jones, Ethan Thompson, 2009
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Entertaining Politics: Satiric Television and Political ...
This audience-centered playfulness also occurred early in Colbert's show in a WORD segment called "Wikiality." In making fun of the ease with which people can effectively construct "reality" through the creation or edition of encyclopedia ...
Jeffrey P. Jones, 2010
3
Introducing Philosophy Through Pop Culture: From Socrates to ...
And it can, thanks to tonight's word: wikiality.... We should apply these principles to all information. All we need to do is convince a majority of people that some factoid is true.... what we're doing is bringing democracy to knowledge. — Stephen ...
William Irwin, David Kyle Johnson, 2011
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Appropriating the Past: Philosophical Perspectives on the ...
WIKIALITY AND THE FINAL INTERPRETANT 2.0 Since the publication ofJoyce's (2002) book, new developments have taken place on the Web that have effectively transformed it from being a place for information storage and dissemination to ...
Geoffrey Scarre, Robin Coningham, 2012
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Stephen Colbert and Philosophy: I Am Philosophy (And So Can ...
ConsiderThe WØRD segment on “wikiality.” 109 Stephen asks, “Who is Britannicato tell methatGeorge Washington had slaves?” andthe commentary reads, “Wikipedia cantell a lie.”This opposesarhetorical question meant to establish wikiality ...
Aaron Schiller, 2013
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Mo' Urban Dictionary: Ridonkulous Street Slang Defined
Damn, check out that tight whip! That's them Gs right there! Time magazine cited “ wikiality” as one of their Buzzwords of 2006. That's good news for Stephen Colbert, who coined the term. He also introduced “truthiness,” which was named Word ...
Peckham, Aaron, 2009
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Light and Lens: Photography in the Digital Age
Wikiality. In the context of our times, we are conscious that a camera can capture infinitesimal detail, but we also recognize how it can be used to craft distortions or lies about a subject; that is, we know that camera images represent a highly ...
Robert Hirsch, 2008
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Colbert's America: Satire and Democracy
This version of wikiality exemplifies Colbert's critique of relativist truth that has no basis in evidence, and, without question, it is a central feature of the term's meaning. But I would further suggest that what makes the term so creatively powerful ...
Sophia A. McClennen, 2012
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The Social Media Reader
Stephen Colbert, “The Word—Wikiality,” Colbert Nation, July 31, 2006, http://www . colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/72347/july-31-2006/the-word—- wikiality (accessed July 20, 2010). 3. Ral315, “Wikipedia Satire Leads to Vandalism ...
Michael Mandiberg, 2012
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The Participatory Cultures Handbook
Another Wikipedia parody derives more directly from fandom: Wikiality: The Truthiness Encyclopedia professes to be an encyclopedia of the world as seen through the onscreen persona of Stephen Colbert from the television show The Colbert ...
Aaron Alan Delwiche, Jennifer Jacobs Henderson, 2013

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «WIKIALITY»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term wikiality is used in the context of the following news items.
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Meet Evelyn McGee-Colbert, Stephen Colbert's Wife
Wikiality describes their three children in a humorous way, writing: The eldest girl writes Stephen's jokes in pictograph form, which saves him the embarrassing ... «Heavy.com, Dec 14»
2
Pilgrim Tech: The Hottest Tech Trends of 1620
Claims of the craft's steerability have been questioned in recent historical reviews. This story may be more wikiality than reality. Theatrum Orbis Terrarum: The ... «Huffington Post, Dec 14»
3
How a Raccoon Became an Aardvark
This gets at an unsettling phenomenon that Stephen Colbert once dubbed Wikiality: the idea that “any user can change any entry, and if enough users agree ... «New Yorker, May 14»
4
Will Stephen Colbert Stay In Character for 'Late Show'? Let's Weigh …
On the one hand, there's "Stephen Colbert", the bombastic right wing pundit, the Patron Saint of Truthiness and Wikiality, and the greatest satirical character of ... «Bustle, Apr 14»
5
This machine kills trolls
... “douchebag,” or when Stephen Colbert sends his viewers out to alter “Wikiality” by, say, “proving,” that Warren G. Harding's middle initial stands for “gangsta. «The Verge, Feb 14»
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Tugan Sokhiev to Be New Bolshoi Music Director
wikiality.wiki.com. The Bolshoi Orchestra has long lacked a highly experienced conductor. According to interviews with Sinaisky, his departure from the Bolshoi, ... «The Moscow Times, Jan 14»
7
Filter Success: The End of Social Discourse
The questions I've been struggling with are about Truth, truth, truthiness, Facts, reality, Wikiality and how we use our extraordinary digital filters to shape (or limit) ... «Huffington Post, Jul 13»
8
What sums up your country in one word?
Dubbed by its creator “an exploration of collective memory, geopolitics, nationalism, Wikiality, and historiography,” the map offers a completely unique, clear and ... «euronews, Jan 13»
9
An Imaginary War, A Wikipedia Hoax
Comedy Central's conservative satirist, Stephen Colbert, dubbed Wikipedia's epistemological contribution to society, “Wikiality”, the notion that “together we can ... «TechCrunch, Jan 13»
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Satire is shaping the next generation of american citizens
He coined terms like, "truthiness" to describe when people believe something without facts to support it and "wikiality" to describe the ability to edit out parts of ... «Phys.Org, Dec 12»

REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Wikiality [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/wikiality>. Apr 2024 ».
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