plausibility

plausibility
Synonyms and related words:
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

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  • Plausibility — Plau si*bil i*ty, n. [Cf. F. plausibilit[ e].] 1. Something worthy of praise. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] Integrity, fidelity, and other gracious plausibilities. E. Vaughan. [1913 Webster] 2. The quality of being plausible; speciousness. [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • plausibility — index common sense, credibility, likelihood, possibility, probability Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …   Law dictionary

  • plausibility — plausible ► ADJECTIVE 1) seeming reasonable or probable. 2) skilled at producing persuasive or deceptive arguments: a plausible liar. DERIVATIVES plausibility noun plausibly adverb. ORIGIN originally in the sense «deserving applause»: from Latin… …   English terms dictionary

  • Plausibility structure — within the social study of religion is a sociocultural context (or base) for systems of meaning or beliefs which are considered so basic and unquestioned to the most of the individuals in a given society, that they would never think of… …   Wikipedia

  • plausibility — noun (plural ties) Date: 1649 1. the quality or state of being plausible 2. something plausible …   New Collegiate Dictionary

  • plausibility — See plausible. * * * …   Universalium

  • plausibility — noun a) The quality of being plausible; speciousness. b) Anything plausible or specious …   Wiktionary

  • plausibility — (Roget s Thesaurus II) noun Appearance of truth or authenticity: believa bility, color, credibility, credibleness, creditabil ity, creditableness, plausibleness, verisimilitude. See LIKELY …   English dictionary for students

  • plausibility — plau·si·bil·i·ty || ‚plɔːzÉ™ bɪlÉ™tɪ n. reasonableness, believability, credibility; state of appearing to be trustworthy (about a person) …   English contemporary dictionary

  • plausibility — plau·si·bil·i·ty …   English syllables

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