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PLAUSIBILITY

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• PLAUSIBILITY (noun)
The noun PLAUSIBILITY has 1 sense:

1. apparent validity

Familiarity information: PLAUSIBILITY used as a noun is very rare.

• PLAUSIBILITY (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

Apparent validity

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

plausibility; plausibleness

Hypernyms ("plausibility" is a kind of...):

believability; credibility; credibleness (the quality of being believable or trustworthy)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "plausibility"):

reasonableness; tenability; tenableness (the quality of being plausible or acceptable to a reasonable person)

Antonym:

implausibility (the quality of provoking disbelief)

"Hope for the best, expect the worst."
(English proverb)
"In age, talk; in childhood, tears."
(Native American proverb, Hopi)
"Give your friend your blood and money."
(Arabic proverb)
"One bird in your hand is better than ten on the roof."
(Danish proverb)

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