different between verisimilar vs truthlike
verisimilar
English
Etymology
From Latin v?risimilis, prop. v?r? similis (“having the appearance of truth”), from v?r?, genitive of v?rus (“true”) + similis (“like, similar”); see very and similar.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?v????s?m?l?/
- (General American) IPA(key): /?v????s?m?l?/, /?v????s?m?l?/
Adjective
verisimilar (comparative more verisimilar, superlative most verisimilar)
- Appearing to be true or real; probable; likely.
- 2012, Matthew Adams, ‘Losing It’, Literary Review, 401:
- 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.
- 2012, Matthew Adams, ‘Losing It’, Literary Review, 401:
- (fiction) Faithful to its own rules; internally consistent.
Related terms
- verisimilitude
- verisimilarity
- verisimilitudinous
- verisimilous
Further reading
- verisimilar in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- verisimilar in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
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truthlike
English
Etymology
truth +? -like
Adjective
truthlike (comparative more truthlike, superlative most truthlike)
- Having the appearance of truth.
Synonyms
- plausible
- verisimilar
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