Plausibility

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Plausibility \Plau`si*bil"i*ty\, n. [Cf. F. plausibilit['e].]
     1. Something worthy of praise. [Obs.]
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              Integrity, fidelity, and other gracious
              plausibilities.                       --E. Vaughan.


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     2. The quality of being plausible; speciousness.
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              To give any plausibility to a scheme. --De Quincey.
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     3. Anything plausible or specious. --R. Browning.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  plausibility
       n : apparent validity [syn: {plausibleness}] [ant: {implausibility}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  59 Moby Thesaurus words for "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