verisimilitude
noun/vɛɹɪsɪˈmɪlɪtjuːd/UK
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”).
- derived from vérisimilitude
Definitions
The property of seeming true, of resembling reality
The property of seeming true, of resembling reality; resemblance to reality.
A statement which merely appears to be true.
Faithfulness to its own rules
Faithfulness to its own rules; internal cohesion.
- On July 12, Madame filed suit for divorce, naming one Jane McManus as his principal mistress. Other adulteries were noted in the interest of verisimilitude.
The neighborhood
- neighborveracity
- neighborverisimilar
- neighborverisimilarity
- neighborverisimilitudinous
- neighborfactoid
- neighborprobability
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for verisimilitude. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA