different between veracious vs verisimilitude

English

Etymology

From Latin verac- +? -ious, stem of v?r?x (“truthful”), from v?rus (“true”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /v?.??e?.??s/
• Rhymes: -e???s

Adjective

veracious (comparative more veracious, superlative most veracious)

1. True.

2. Truthful; speaking the truth.

See also

• voracious

Anagrams

• Rico Suave

English

Etymology

From Middle French vérisimilitude, from Latin v?r?similit?d? (“likeness to truth”), more correctly written separately as v?r? similit?d?; from v?r?, genitive singular of v?rus (“true, real”), + similit?d? (“likeness, resemblance”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /v???s??m?l?tju?d/

Noun

verisimilitude (countable and uncountable, plural verisimilitudes)

1. The property of seeming true, of resembling reality; resemblance to reality, realism.
2. A statement which merely appears to be true.
3. (fiction) Faithfulness to its own rules; internal cohesion.

Quotations

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:verisimilitude.

Related terms

• verisimilitudinous
• verisimilar
• verisimilarity
• truthiness

Translations

See also

• probability

Further reading

• verisimilitude in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• verisimilitude in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

French

Etymology

From Latin v?r?similit?d? (“likeness to truth”), more correctly written separately as v?r? similit?d?; from v?r?, genitive singular of v?rus (“true, real”), + similis (“like, resembling, similar”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /v?.?i.si.mi.li.tyd/

Noun

verisimilitude f (plural verisimilitudes)

1. verisimilitude