verisimilitude

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   The quality of seeming real or true to life.

   The author's careful attention to detail gives the novel real verisimilitude.

From Middle French vérisimilitude, from Latin vērīsimilitūdō (“likeness to truth”), more correctly written separately as vērī similitūdō; from vērī, genitive singular of vērus (“true, real”), + similitūdō (“likeness, resemblance”).

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