verisimilitude

English
WOTD – 16 April 2006

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”).

Pronunciation

Noun

verisimilitude (countable and uncountable, plural verisimilitudes)

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

Quotations
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French

Etymology

From Latin vērīsimilitūdō (“likeness to truth”), more correctly written separately as vērī similitūdō; from vērī, genitive singular of vērus (“true, real”), + similis (“like, resembling, similar”).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /vɛʁisimilityd/
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Noun

verisimilitude f (plural verisimilitudes)

  1. verisimilitude
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