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单词 implausibility
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implausibilityn.

Etymology: < implausible adj. + -ity suffix.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: implausiˈbility.
The quality or condition of being implausible; want of plausibility.
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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).
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