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verisimilitude
What does verisimilitude mean?
verisimilitude (noun): the property of seeming true, of resembling reality; resemblance to reality.
Definition: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
How do you use verisimilitude in a sentence?
- It is interesting how this conspiracy theory author abandons all attempts at verisimilitude. (Tatoeba sentence #6577540 by Eccles17, CC BY 2.0 FR)
How do you pronounce verisimilitude?
/ˌvɛɹəsəˈmɪləˌtud/ (IPA, American English). The app reads every word aloud.
Where does verisimilitude come from?
From Middle French vérisimilitude, from Latin vērīsimilitūdō (“likeness to truth”), more correctly written separately as vērī similitūdō.
Etymology: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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