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verisimility

verisimility noun: verisimilitude.

Noun

verisimility (countable and uncountable, plural verisimilities)

  1. (obsolete) Verisimilitude.
    • I will not allow your Genius the slightest approach to inspiration, and I can admit no verisimility in a reverie which is fixed on a foundation you now allow to be so weak.1830, Humphrey Davy, Consolations in Travel
    • Dryden has himself assigned the following reasons:—"The plot, the characters, the wit, the passions, the descriptions, are all exalted above the level of common converse, as high as the imagination of the poet can carry them, with proportion to verisimility."1882, Sir Walter Scott, The Dramatic Works of John Dryden, volume 1

Forms of verisimility

pluralverisimilities

Questions about verisimility

What does verisimility mean?
Verisimility means verisimilitude.
What part of speech is verisimility?
Verisimility is a noun.
What is the plural of verisimility?
The plural of verisimility is verisimilities.

Words near verisimility in the dictionary

  1. verisimilarly
  2. verisimilities
  3. verisimilitude
  4. verisimilitudes
  5. verisimilitudinous
  6. verisimility
  7. verisimilous
  8. verism
  9. verismo
  10. verisms
  11. verist

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