truth quotient

English

Noun

truth quotient (plural truth quotients)

1. The degree to which someone or something reflects fact rather than fiction; the degree to which something reflects reality.
   • 1995, Walter H. Capps, Religious Studies: The Making of a Discipline, →ISBN, page 249:

     Religious beliefs are not born of the same conditions through which knowledge is established. Thus, in the technical philosophical sense, they carry no truth quotients.

   • 2005, Gary D. Rhodes, John Parris Springer, Docufictions, →ISBN:

     It might be best, at this point, to dispense entirely with questions of the truth quotient of documentary films that are propped on misleading binarisms such as fiction/non-fiction, realism/fantasy, true/false.

   • 2014, Farah Dally, The Magic of Truth: A Reality to Remember, →ISBN, page 119:

     In his discussion of the shortcomings of current literary studies, Joseph Epstein, essayist, short story writer, and editor, remarked that “what they [the great novelists] wrote contained as high a truth quotient as I was likely to get from any other kind of writing.