different between plausible vs expectable

English

Etymology

From Latin plausibilis (“deserving applause, praiseworthy, acceptable, pleasing”), from the participle stem of plaudere (“to applaud”)

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?pl??z.?.b?l/, /?pl??z.?.b?l/

Adjective

plausible (comparative more plausible, superlative most plausible)

1. Seemingly or apparently valid, likely, or acceptable; conceivably true or likely

   • In short, the twin assumptions that syntactic rules are category-based, and that there are a highly restricted finite set of categories in any natural language (perhaps no more than a dozen major categories), together with the assumption that the child either knows (innately) or learns (by experience) that all rules are structure-dependent ( =category-based), provide a highly plausible model of language acquisition, in which languages become learnable in a relatively short, finite period of time (a few years).

2. Obtaining approbation; specifically pleasing; apparently right; specious.

   a plausible pretext; plausible manners; a plausible delusion

3. (obsolete) Worthy of being applauded; praiseworthy; commendable; ready.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Bishop Hacket to this entry?)

   • 1955, Lincoln and the Bluegrass: Slavery and Civil War in Kentucky

     […] a coachman named Richard, who was described as a "sensible, well-behaved yellow boy, who is plausible and can read and write."

Derived terms

• plausible deniability
• plausibility
• plausibly

Translations

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin plausibilis.

Adjective

plausible (masculine and feminine plural plausibles)

1. plausible

Derived terms

• plausiblement

Further reading

• “plausible” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “plausible” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “plausible” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “plausible” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

French

Etymology

From Latin plausibilis.

Pronunciation

Adjective

plausible (plural plausibles)

1. plausible

Further reading

• “plausible” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Middle French

Adjective

plausible m or f (plural plausibles)

1. plausible

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin plausibilis.

Adjective

plausible (plural plausibles)

1. plausible

Further reading

• “plausible” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

English

Etymology

expect +? -able

Adjective

expectable (comparative more expectable, superlative most expectable)

1. Able to be expected.
   1. Able to be expected or anticipated; not unusual.

      Expectable losses are calculated into the final selling price.

   2. Able to be expected or considered due or required (of someone), reasonable to expect (someone to do, have, etc).
      • c. 1964, Donald R. Mergenhagen v. George R. Mergenhagen, case before the Supreme Court of New York, appellate division, fourth department, in State of New York Supreme Court Appellate Division Fourth Department, page 265:

        The jury could and did find that appellant's decision not to move was not a decision expectable of a reasonably prudent man to whom any backing vehicle means grave danger.

      • 1987, Geoffrey M. White, John Kirkpatrick, Person, Self, and Experience: Exploring Pacific Ethnopsychologies, Univ of California Press (?ISBN), page 91:

        An argument can be made that the Marquesan view of certain states as expectable of 'persons' follows from these being equally examples of a common type of process.

      • 2004, Raymond M. Scurfield, A Vietnam Trilogy, Vol. I: Veterans and Post Traumatic Stress, 1968, 1989, 2000, Algora Publishing (?ISBN), page 206:

        And that is the tragedy of the establishment of the diagnosis of PTSD. The presence of troubling war-related memories and associated negative reactions typically has much more to do with what is normal and expectable of almost anyone who has survived war  ...

      • 2008, Leonard Swidler, Paul Mojzes, The Uniqueness of Jesus: A Dialogue with Paul F. Knitter, Wipf and Stock Publishers (?ISBN), page 64:

        Such issues finally turn on two counts; namely, what is most opposite to the human scene, and what is most properly worth, or—may we say— “expectable” of God.

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