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Verisimilar

//ˌvɛɹɪˈsɪmələ// adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Appearing to be true or real; probable; likely.

    "Joyce's objection was founded in [...] a reaction to the doggedly linear, heavily patterned artifice of the nineteenth-century novel, the verisimilar credentials of which existed – so, at any rate, the argument runs – in inverse proportion to the conventionality of its narrative style."

  2. 2
    Faithful to its own rules; internally consistent.
Adjective
  1. 1
    appearing to be true or real wordnet

Etymology

From Latin vērisimilis, prop. vērī similis (“having the appearance of truth”), from vērī (genitive of vērus (“true”)) + similis (“like, similar”); see very and similar.

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