 In its 16th annual words of the year vote , the American Dialect Society voted truthiness as the word of the year . First heard on The Colbert Report , a satirical mock news show on the Comedy Central television channel , truthiness refers to the quality of preferring concepts or facts one wishes or believes to be true , rather than concepts or facts known to be true . As Stephen Colbert put it , " I don 't trust books . They 're all fact , no heart . " 
