different between verisimilitudinous vs verisimilar

English

Adjective

verisimilitudinous (comparative more verisimilitudinous, superlative most verisimilitudinous)

1. appearing to be verisimilar; exhibiting verisimilitude, in either a neutral or a dubious sense.

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.