different between verisimilar vs verisimilitude

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)

1. 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.

2. (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.

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