单词 | plausibility |
释义 | plausibility (once / 6549 pages) n 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 FAMILYplausibility: plausibilities+/implausibility: implausibilities/implausible: implausibility, implausibleness, implausibly/plausible: implausible, plausibility, plausibleness, plausibler, plausiblest, plausibly USAGE EXAMPLESThere 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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