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verisimilitude: synonyms: vraisemblance, speciousness ???

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Definition:

1. The property of seeming true, of resembling reality; resemblance to reality, realism.
2. A statement which merely appears to be true.
3. (fiction) Faithfulness to its own rules; internal cohesion.

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Nor would he need to consider my feelings if at any point he should feel minded to blame or to upbraid me, or to demonstrate the harm rather than the good which has been done through any lack of thought or verisimilitude of which I have been guilty. In short, for anything and for everything in the way of criticism I should be thankful.

Nikolai Gogol. Dead Souls

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"To give verisimilitude... Yes, and that colleague, I presume, was momentarily out of touch with you?"

Agatha Christie. And Then There Were None. p.39 (1939)

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the sake of retrospective verisimilitude.

Vladimir Nabokov. Lolita