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单词 plausibility
释义
plausibility
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Something's plausibility is how likely it is to be true. You might, for example, question the plausibility of your brother's story about seeing a UFO land in the back yard.
The noun plausibility means "likelihood" or "believability." You're most likely to come across the word in a negative or questioning context, as when someone doubts the plausibility of an action movie's plot or questions the plausibility of a debater's claims and arguments. If you aren't sure you believe something, you'll question its plausibility. The Latin root is plausibilis, "deserving applause or acceptable."
WORD FAMILY
plausibility: plausibilities+/implausibility: implausibilities/implausible: implausibility, implausibleness, implausibly/plausible: implausible, plausibility, plausibleness, plausibler, plausiblest, plausibly
USAGE EXAMPLES
There is sometimes a trade-off between plausibility and probability.
Slate(Dec 19, 2016)
The plausibility of that idea was now in question.
Slate(Dec 06, 2016)
A test, say, that gauged the plausibility of a virtual being who communicated by gestures, posture, facial expressions and movement through space?
Time(Dec 05, 2016)
n apparent validity
Syn|Ant|Hypo|Hyper
plausibleness
implausibility, implausibleness
the quality of provoking disbelief
reasonableness, tenability, tenableness
the quality of being plausible or acceptable to a reasonable person
believability, credibility, credibleness
the quality of being believable or trustworthy
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