plausibility

English

Noun

plausibility (countable and uncountable, plural plausibilities)

1. The quality of being plausible; speciousness.
   • 2014 October 14, David Malcolm, “The Great War Re-Remembered: Allohistory and Allohistorical Fiction”, in Martin Löschnigg, Marzena Sokolowska-Paryz, editors, The Great War in Post-Memory Literature and Film‎^[1], Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG., →ISBN, page 173:

     The question of the plausibility of the counter-factual is seen as key in all three discussions of allohistorical fiction (as it is in Demandt's and Ferguson's examinations of allohistory) (cf. Rodiek 25–26; Ritter 15–16; Helbig 32).

2. Anything plausible or specious.

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3. (obsolete) Something worthy of praise.
   • E. Vaughan

     integrity, fidelity, and other gracious plausibilities

Derived terms

• implausibility

Translations

the quality of being plausible

• Dutch: plausibel (nl), waarschijnlijk (nl)
• Manx: so-chredjallaght f
• Romanian: plauzibilitate (ro)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Serbo-Croatian: plauzibilnost (sh)
• Spanish: plausibilidad (es)

anything plausible or specious

• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}

something worthy of praise

• Romanian: plauzibilitate (ro) f
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}

References

• “plausibility”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
• “plausibility”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.