Meaning of PLAUSIBILITY
| Pronunciation: | | pl`ozub'ilutee
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| | Definition: | | [n] apparent validity |
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| | Synonyms: | | plausibleness |
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| | Antonyms: | | implausibility, implausibleness | | |
| | See Also: | | believability, credibility, credibleness, reasonableness, tenability, tenableness | |
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| | Definition: | | \Plau`si*bil"i*ty\, n. [Cf. F. plausibilit['e].]
1. Something worthy of praise. [Obs.]
Integrity, fidelity, and other gracious
plausibilities. --E. Vaughan.
2. The quality of being plausible; speciousness.
To give any plausibility to a scheme. --De Quincey.
3. Anything plausible or specious. --R. Browning.
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| | Related Terms: | | acceptability, admissibility, apparent soundness, believability, believableness, casuistry, circularity, color, common sense, conceivability, credibility, credit, disingenuousness, distortion, equivocalness, equivocation, evasive reasoning, fallaciousness, fallacy, insincerity, jesuitism, jesuitry, justifiability, justness, logic, logicality, logicalness, misapplication, mystification, obfuscation, obscurantism, oversubtlety, perversion, philosophism, plausibleness, rationality, rationalization, reason, reasonability, reasonableness, reliability, sense, sensibleness, sophism, sophistical reasoning, sophistication, sophistry, sound sense, soundness, special pleading, speciosity, specious reasoning, speciousness, subtlety, sweet reason, tenability, trustworthiness, vicious circle, vicious reasoning |
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