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PLAUSIBILITY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Apparent validity
Synonyms:
plausibility; plausibleness
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
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)
Derivation:
plausible (apparently reasonable and credible, and therefore convincing)
