vraisemblance

Noun

vraisemblance (uncountable)

1. (literary theory) verisimilitude
   • Recognition of this first level of vraisemblance need not depend on the claim that reality is a convention produced by language.2002, Jonathan D. Culler, Structuralist Poetics: Structuralism, Linguistics and the Study of Literature
   • Vraisemblance does not entail “realism” in the sense that Ian Watt gives it in The Rise of the Novel. It is not the “realistic particularity” ([1957] 1974, 17) of the processes of experience, as Watt defines his “formal realism.” Rather, vraisemblance takes the guise of “elegant concentration,” not...2017, Karin Kukkonen, A Prehistory of Cognitive Poetics: Neoclassicism and the Novel, page 6