verisimilitude

Meaning

1. (countable, uncountable) The property of seeming true, of resembling reality; resemblance to reality.
2. (countable, uncountable) A statement which merely appears to be true.
3. (countable, uncountable) Faithfulness to its own rules; internal cohesion.

Synonyms

plausibility

likelihood

vraisemblance

presumption

probability

realism

speciousness

truth

appearance

speciousity

chance

🎲

naturalism

odds

possibility

Translations

vraisemblance

verosimilitud

verisimilitude

waarschijnlijkheid

verosimiglianza

versemblança

αληθοφάνεια

محاكاة

verisimilitudo

verosimile

Wahrscheinlichkeit

plausibilité

Wahrhaftigkeit

Glaubwürdigkeit

Pronounced as (IPA)

/vɛɹɪsɪˈmɪlɪtjuːd/

Etymology

From Middle French vérisimilitude, from Latin vērīsimilitūdō (“likeness to truth”), more correctly written separately as vērī similitūdō; from vērī, genitive singular of vērus (“true, real”), + similitūdō (“likeness, resemblance”).