verisimilar

Examples

• All

• This point is essential: the effect of the marvelous element is to make the rest of the text more verisimilar.

  Academic text (1994)

• As opposed to hallucination and other illusion-like states, the experience elicited by aesthetic illusion has a characteristic "as-if" quality: the illusion-producing object creates a feeling of verisimilar lifelikeness, but not of life tout court.

  Academic text (2004)

• Remote-controlled sexual interaction is discursively represented as simulative, yet the most verisimilar and approximated experience to 'the real thing.'

  Academic text (2018)

• Delicado threw superficial readers off the scent with his apparently frank, "verisimilar," often hilarious vignettes.

  Academic text (1994)

• The temporal symbolism of the story also derives from and reflects the story's thematic and aesthetic demands rather than the need for a verisimilar sequence.

  Academic text (1993)

• In addition to the "comedic" and the "biblical" (a category explored previously by William Mentzel Forrest), we can consider a style named by Poe himself: the "plausible and verisimilar."

  Academic text (1999)

• The movie's special effects made the fantasy world feel surprisingly verisimilar to the audience.

• The author used realistic dialogue to give the characters a verisimilar quality.

Synonyms

T

truthy

vsverisimilar

• Informal

8.3

Seeming believable because it matches feelings rather than real proof

is the appearance of being real without suggesting feeling-based or weak evidence

Antonyms

F

false

263 2.8

Not real and made to trick people

How Plausible

convincing

195 3.4

believable

98 3.7

verisimilar

• Formal

9.4

possible

∞ 1.0

unlikely

487 1.9

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology