verisimilitude

English

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Etymology

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

• (RP) IPA: /vɛrɪsɪˈmɪlɪtjuːd/

Noun

verisimilitude (plural verisimilitudes)

1. the property of seeming true, of resembling reality; resemblance to reality, realism
2. a statement which merely appears to be true

Quotations

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Related terms

• verisimilitudinous
• verisimilar
• verisimilarity

Translations

the property of seeming true

Dutch: waarschijnlijkheid (nl) French: verisimilitude (fr) f. Latin: verisimilitudo (la) f.

Russian: правдоподобие (ru) (prevdopodóbije) n.

a statement which merely appears to be true

Dutch: schijnwaarheid (nl),gelijkenis met de werkelijkheid (nl)

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Arabic: محاكاة (muħākā) Serbo-Croatian: vjerovatnost f. French: verisimilitude (fr) f. German: Wahrheitsnähe,Wahrheitsähnlichkeit Norwegian: virkelighetsnærhet m.,f., virkelighetstroskap m.,

Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: вероватност f. Roman: verovatnost f.

See also

• probability

External links

• verisimilitude in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• verisimilitude in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911

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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: /vɛʀisimilityd/

Noun

verisimilitude f. (plural verisimilitudes)

1. verisimilitude