'Plausibility' definitions:
Definition of 'plausibility'
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noun
Definition of 'Plausibility'
From: GCIDE
- 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]
- To give any plausibility to a scheme. --De Quincey. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Anything plausible or specious. --R. Browning. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'plausibility'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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