单词 | implausibility |
释义 | implausibilityn. The quality or condition of being implausible; want of plausibility. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > belief > uncertainty, doubt, hesitation > improbability, unlikeliness > [noun] unlikelihood?1470 unlikeliness?1560 implausibility1592 improbability1598 dislikelihood1823 inverisimilitudea1834 the mind > mental capacity > belief > disbelief, incredulity > [noun] > something unbelievable > implausibility implausibility1592 untenableness1833 untenability1841 implausibleness1846 1592 H. Wotton Let. 13 June in Reliquiæ Wottonianæ (1685) 671 No doubt he had obtain'd a very important Office in this State, but for the implausibility of his Person. 1776 G. Campbell Philos. of Rhetoric I. i. vii. 211 Implausibility may be surmounted. 1926 C. R. Boyd Freeman Towards Answer 7 Perhaps the thing is an impossibility or an implausibility. 1966 G. N. Leech Eng. in Advertising ii. 17 The other two examples are also freakish..because of their contextual implausibility. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online June 2019). < n.1592 |
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