plausibility


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plau·si·ble

(plô′zə-bəl)
adj.
1. Seemingly or apparently valid, likely, or acceptable; credible: a plausible excuse.
2. Persuasive or ingratiating, especially in an effort to deceive.
[Latin plausibilis, deserving applause, from plausus, past participle of plaudere, to applaud.]
plau′si·bil′i·ty, plau′si·ble·ness n.
plau′si·bly adv.
Synonyms: plausible, believable, credible
These adjectives mean appearing to merit belief or acceptance: a plausible pretext; a believable excuse; a credible assertion.
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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Noun 1. plausibility - apparent validity
believability, credibility, credibleness - the quality of being believable or trustworthy
tenability, tenableness, reasonableness - the quality of being plausible or acceptable to a reasonable person; "he questioned the tenability of my claims"
implausibility, implausibleness - the quality of provoking disbelief
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plausibility

noun
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Translations

plausibility

[ˌplɔːzəˈbɪlɪtɪ] N [of argument] → verosimilitud f; [of person] → credibilidad f
his plausibility is such that → habla tan bien que ...
Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

plausibility

[ˌplɔːzɪˈbɪlɪti] n (= credibility) → plausibilité f
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plausibility

n → Plausibilität f; (of story, excuse also) → Glaubwürdigkeit f; (of liar) → Geschicktheit f; (of manner, person) → überzeugende Art
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plausibility

[ˌplɔːzəˈbɪlɪtɪ] n (of argument, story) → plausibilità
he lacks plausibility → non è convincente
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The logical plausibility of it, that made an appeal to his intellect, seemed missed by Kreis and Hamilton, who sneered at Norton as a metaphysician, and who, in turn, sneered back at them as metaphysicians.
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That feeling of life- emptiness which had made me so restless for the last few months lost its bitter plausibility, its evil influence, dissolved in a flow of joyous emotion.
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It may be said that the tactile images are merely present, without any accompanying belief; but I think this view, though sometimes correct, derives its plausibility as a general proposition from our thinking of explicit conscious belief only.
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ESIODUS), to show how prejudiced and lacking even in plausibility such efforts are.
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It may always be asked whether a writer of Romance makes his world seem convincingly real as we read or whether he frankly abandons all plausibility. The presence or absence of a supernatural element generally makes an important difference.
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Pullet's observation with erroneous plausibility, "you must consider that, neighbor Tulliver; Wakem's son isn't likely to follow any business.
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This was what gave plausibility to the whispers, that Mr.
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There it was again--the same, familiar, disarming plausibility of Martin's, the old trick of making her seem to be the one in the wrong.
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Its plausibility is marred a little by the fact that the Oracle was not a biblical student, and did not spend much of his time instructing himself about Scriptural localities.--They say the Oracle complains, in this hot weather, lately, that the only beverage in the ship that is passable, is the butter.
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Evidence having a shade more of plausibility than of unlikelihood.
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