verisimilitudenoun [ U ]
uk/ˌver.ɪ.sɪˈmɪl.ɪ.tʃuːd/us/ˌver.ə.səˈmɪl.ə.tuːd/formalthe quality of seeming true or of having the appearance of being real:
She has included photographs in the book to lend verisimilitude to the story.
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Reality and truth
- a slice of life idiom
- actuality
- apothegm
- authenticity
- fact
- gospel
- home truth
- immediacy
- McCoy
- practice
- reality
- slice
- the genuine article idiom
- the real McCoy
- the real thing 1
- the real world 2
- truth is stranger than fiction idiom
- truth will out idiom
- veracity
- verity
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Seeming and purporting to be