Meaning of Plausibility | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The quality of deserving applause, praiseworthiness; something worthy of praise.
   countable, obsolete, uncountable
2. The appearance of truth, especially when deceptive; speciousness.
   archaic, countable, uncountable
3. A plausible statement, argument etc.
   countable, uncountable
4. The fact of being believable; believability, credibility.
   countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“integrity, fidelity, and other gracious plausibilities”

“Plausibility, I know, can only be unmasked by shewing the absurdities it glosses over, and the simple truths it involves with specious errors.”

“She too must shimmer through the gloom o' the grave, / Come and confront me— […] / Striking me dumb, and helping her to speak, / Tell her own story her own way, and turn / My plausibility to nothingness!”

“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).”

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