Word Meanings - INVERISIMILITUDE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Want of verisimilitude or likelihood; improbability.

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• VERISIMILITUDE
  The quality or state of being verisimilar; the appearance of truth; probability; likelihood. Verisimilitude and opinion are an easy purchase; but true knowledge is dear and difficult. Glanvill. All that gives verisimilitude to a narrative. Sir.
• IMPROBABILITY
  The quality or state of being improbable; unlikelihood; also, that which is improbable; an improbable event or result.
• LIKELIHOOD
  1. Appearance; show; sign; expression. What of his heart perceive you in his face By any likelihood he showed to-day Shak. 2. Likeness; resemblance. There is no likelihood between pure light and black darkness, or between righteousness
• UNLIKELIHOOD
  Absence of likelihood.
• DISLIKELIHOOD
  The want of likelihood; improbability. Sir W. Scott.
• INVERISIMILITUDE
  Want of verisimilitude or likelihood; improbability.