plausibility

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/plˌɔzɪˈbɪlɪti/

noun

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He wants to demonstrate the plausibility of a new dictatorship coming to power.
Pervasive and pernicious deviations from both fact and logical validity lurked behind a meretricious plausibility.

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Extra meanings

The appearance of truth, especially when deceptive; speciousness.
The quality of deserving applause, praiseworthiness; something worthy of praise.
The fact of being believable; believability, credibility.

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Plausibility, I know, can only be unmasked by shewing the absurdities it glosses over, and the simple truths it involves with specious errors.
integrity, fidelity, and other gracious plausibilities
She too must shimmer through the gloom o' the grave, / Come and confront me— […] / Striking me dumb, and helping her to speak, / Tell her own story her own way, and turn / My plausibility to nothingness!

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integrity, fidelity, and other gracious plausibilities
1668, David Lloyd, Memories of the Lives, Actions, Sufferings & Deaths of Those Noble, Reverend, and Excellent Personages that Suffered […] for the Protestant Religion
Plausibility, I know, can only be unmasked by shewing the absurdities it glosses over, and the simple truths it involves with specious errors.
1790, Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Men
She too must shimmer through the gloom o' the grave, / Come and confront me— […] / Striking me dumb, and helping her to speak, / Tell her own story her own way, and turn / My plausibility to nothingness!
1869, Robert Browning, “XI. Guido.”, in The Ring and the Book. […], volume IV, London: Smith, Elder and Co., →OCLC, page 164, lines 1680–1681 and 1685–1687
The question of the plausibility of the counter-factual is seen as key in all three discussions of allohistorical fiction (as it is in Demandt's and Ferguson's examinations of allohistory) (cf. Rodiek 25–26; Ritter 15–16; Helbig 32).
2014 October 14, David Malcolm, “The Great War Re-Remembered: Allohistory and Allohistorical Fiction”, in Martin Löschnigg, Marzena Sokolowska-Paryz, editors, The Great War in Post-Memory Literature and Film, Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG., →ISBN, page 173

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Borrowed from New Latin plausibilitās.