verisimilitude

== English == === Etymology === From Middle French vérisimilitude, 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 === (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /vɛɹɪsɪˈmɪlɪtjuːd/ === Noun === verisimilitude (countable and uncountable, plural verisimilitudes) The property of seeming true, of resembling reality; resemblance to reality. Coordinate terms: realisticness, realism A statement which merely appears to be true. Synonym: truthiness (in composing a fiction): Faithfulness to its own rules; internal cohesion. ==== Quotations ==== For quotations using this term, see Citations:verisimilitude. ==== Related terms ==== ==== Translations ==== === See also === factoid probability === Further reading === “verisimilitude”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC. William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “verisimilitude”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC. == French == === Etymology === Borrowed 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(key): /və.ʁi.si.mi.li.tyd/ === Noun === verisimilitude f (plural verisimilitudes) verisimilitude