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Plausibility Definition And Meaning
What's The Definition Of Plausibility? [n] apparent validity Synonyms \| Synonyms for Plausibility: plausibleness Related Terms \| Find terms related to Plausibility: acceptability \| admissibility \| apparent soundness \| believability \| believableness \| casuistry \| circularity \| color \| common sense \| conceivability \| credibility \| credit \| disingenuousness \| distortion \| equivocalness \| equivocation \| evasive reasoning \| fallaciousness \| fallacy \| insincerity \| jesuitism \| jesuitry \| justifiability \| justness \| logic \| logicality \| logicalness \| misapplication \| mystification \| obfuscation \| obscurantism \| oversubtlety \| perversion \| philosophism \| plausibleness \| rationality \| rationalization \| reason \| reasonability \| reasonableness \| reliability \| sense \| sensibleness \| sophism \| sophistical reasoning \| sophistication \| sophistry \| sound sense \| soundness \| special pleading \| speciosity \| specious reasoning \| speciousness \| subtlety \| sweet reason \| tenability \| trustworthiness \| vicious circle \| vicious reasoning See Also \| believability \| credibility \| credibleness \| reasonableness \| tenability \| tenableness Plausibility In Webster's Dictionary \Plau`sibil"ity\, n. [Cf. F. plausibilit['e].] 1. Something worthy of praise. [Obs.] Integrity, fidelity, and other gracious plausibilities. --E. Vaughan. 2. The quality of being plausible; speciousness. To give any plausibility to a scheme. --De Quincey. 3. Anything plausible or specious. --R. Browning.

Plausibility Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Plausibility?

[n] apparent validity

Synonyms | Synonyms for Plausibility: plausibleness

Plausibility In Webster's Dictionary

\Plau`si*bil"i*ty\, n. [Cf. F. plausibilit['e].]
1. Something worthy of praise. [Obs.]

         Integrity, fidelity, and other gracious
         plausibilities.                       --E. Vaughan.

2. The quality of being plausible; speciousness.

         To give any plausibility to a scheme. --De Quincey.

3. Anything plausible or specious. --R. Browning.

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