inverisimilituden.
/ɪnˌvɛrɪsɪˈmɪlɪtjuːd/ Lack of verisimilitude; unlikeness to truth; unlikelihood; improbability.
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the mind > mental capacity > belief > uncertainty, doubt, hesitation > improbability, unlikeliness > [noun]
unlikelihood?1470
unlikeliness?1560
implausibility1592
improbability1598
dislikelihood1823
inverisimilitudea1834
a1834 S. T. Coleridge Lit. Remains (1836) II. 161 The events are too well and distinctly known, to be, without plump inverisimilitude, crowded together in one night's exhibition.
1836 J. W. Donaldson Theatre of Greeks (ed. 4) ii. iii. 366 An inverisimilitude which is only found out by dissection..was to them none at all.
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