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Craig White's Literature Courses verisimilitude |
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Oxford English Dictionary: [from Latin: "like truth"]
verisimilar: Having the appearance or semblance of truth or reality; appearing true or real; probable.
verisimilitude: The fact or quality of being verisimilar; the appearance of
being true or real; likeness or resemblance to truth, reality, or fact;
probability.
- The property of seeming true, of resembling
reality; resemblance to reality, realism.
- A statement which merely appears to be true.
- (fiction) Faithfulness to its own rules; internal cohesion.
