verisimilitude
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9.7
- noun
- /ˌvɛrɪsɪˈmɪlɪˌtud/
- Literature
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verosimilitud
- To enhance the verisimilitude of her character, the actress studied real-life interviews.
- naturalistic verisimilitude
- verisimilitude in historical contexts
- conventions of verisimilitude
Examples
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The stories may be fictional, yet the actions described still have a flavor of verisimilitude.
Academic text (2002) -
There's a certain pleasure in that verisimilitude of the actual world.
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I value the verisimilitude that you bring to the party, but I...
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Once, just once, I would have liked our stories to have more than verisimilitude.
Fiction book (1999) -
Thus, on the level of verisimilitude, a silver coin would have been more likely.
Academic text (1991) -
No actor alive, however skillful, could have achieved such verisimilitude.
Fiction book (2001) -
Essence and drama supersede concerns about verisimilitude or accuracy.
Academic text (2001) -
Yourcenar also invokes other narrative conventions to bring history alive and to emphasize the verisimilitude of her fiction.
Fiction book (1996) -
Similarly, medieval descriptions of the famous Volto Santo of Lucca focus on the verisimilitude of Christ's face and eyes.
Academic text (2005) -
The director's attention to detail added verisimilitude to the film, making it feel more authentic.
Synonyms
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7.0
How likely something is to be true
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3.7
How much something seems true or real to people
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8.3
The way something appears to be true even when it is not
How likely something seems to be true
Appearing to be true or real but not always so
Antonyms
How Realistic
Surface Forms
Morphology
verisimilitude = veri + simil + itude
The word is built from Latin combining forms veri- ('truth') + simil- ('similar') + the noun-forming suffix -itude, but these components are not productive or recognizable to an average B1 learner, so the meaning cannot be derived from familiar English base words.
Etymology
Verisimilitude comes from Latin parts veri- ('true') and similis ('similar'), so it means 'like the truth'. So, verisimilitude is the quality of something that makes it seem true or real.