Crossword-Solution: VERISIMILITUDE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Verisimilitude | n. | The quality or state of being verisimilar; the appearance of truth; probability; likelihood. |
We have 22 clues for the answer “VERISIMILITUDE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| the state of being verisimilar, having the appearance of truth | 1 answer |
| the appearance of truth | 1 answer |
| Authentic appearance | 1 answer |
| Appearance of truth | 1 answer |
| The appearance of being true or real | 4 answers |
| viability | 13 answers |
| plausibility | 14 answers |
| latency | 17 answers |
| credibility | 24 answers |
| Probability | 24 answers |
| presumption | 25 answers |
| Odds | 38 answers |
| expectation | 39 answers |
| possibility | 45 answers |
| Realise | 60 answers |
| prospect | 62 answers |
| Outlook | 71 answers |
| Tendency | 73 answers |
| Truth ___ | 77 answers |
| Ability | 81 answers |
| Accuracy | 81 answers |
| Facility | 95 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
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discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
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Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
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Sentences with VERISIMILITUDE (5)
And further, I have never observed that any truth before unknown has been brought to light by the disputations that are practised in the schools; for while each strives for the victory, each is much more occupied in making the best of mere verisimilitude, than in weighing the reasons on both sides of the question; and those who have been long good advocates are not afterwards on that account the better judges.
The play on his name which was made by his contemporary Herodicus, "thou wast ever bold in battle," seems to show that the description of him is not devoid of verisimilitude.
Even football, although it admirably simulates the tug and the ebb and flow of battle, has presented difficulties to the mind of young sticklers after verisimilitude; and I knew at least one little boy who was mightily exercised about the presence of the ball, and had to spirit himself up, whenever he came to play, with an elaborate story of enchantment, and take the missile as a sort of talisman bandied about in conflict between two Arabian nations.
Only rarely is the object of Anderson’s stories social verisimilitude, or the “photographing” of familiar appearances, in the sense, say, that one might use to describe a novel by Theodore Dreiser or Sinclair Lewis.
But, of course, a Monson girl may have been chosen by the inventors to give verisimilitude to the substitution story, simply because the family was friendly with Turner, and the tale of the lewd high jinks with Symon added to make it seem more likely that old Lady Monson would lend herself to such a plot.
Quotes with VERISIMILITUDE (3)
There is not a single untruth, no -but after ten lines Truth shrieks, she runs distraught and disheveled through her temple's corridors; she does not know herself. 'I can endure lies,' she cries. 'I cannot survive this stifling verisimilitude
Don't be tricked by the verisimilitude into forgetting this is fiction!
If one were to reply that those who compose these books write them as fictions, and therefore are not obliged to consider the fine points of truth, I should respond that the more truthful the fiction, the better it is, and the more probable and possible, the more pleasing. Fictional tales must engage the minds of those who read them, and by restraining exaggeration and moderating impossibility, they enthrall the spirit and thereby astonish, captivate, delight, and entertain, …
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Appears in: NYT, WSJ.
Used 2 times in crossword archives (1971–2023).