plausibility

Noun

Meaning

Something worthy of praise.

The quality of being plausible; speciousness.

Anything plausible or specious.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

plausibleness likely color direction opportunity chance possibility probability appeal odds reliability integrity likelihood realism liability
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Antonyms

implausibility head enquiry doubt ambiguity deception
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Hypernyms

credibility believability credibleness

Hyponyms

reasonableness tenability tenableness

Examples

In Heaven all reviews will be favorable; here on earth, the publisher realizes, plausibility demands an occasional bad one, some convincing lump in all that leaven, and he accepts it somewhat as a theologian accepts Evil. Randall Jarrell

Rank beliefs not according to their plausibility but by the harm they may cause. Nassim Nicholas Taleb

PROOF, n. Evidence having a shade more of plausibility than of unlikelihood. The testimony of two credible witnesses as opposed to that of only one. Ambrose Bierce

My next speculation is more difficult, and is addressed to those who not only take too terrestrial a view, but who deny the plausibility - nay, the possibility - of the existence of an unseen world at all. I reply we are demonstrably standing on the brink, at any rate, of one unseen world. William Crookes

Two societies confronting each other with conflicting universes will both develop conceptual machineries designed to maintain their respective universes. From the point of view of intrinsic plausibility the two forms of conceptualization may seem to the outside observer to offer little choice. Peter L. Berger

But mere plausibility did not make the statement true. Charles Sheffield

Close letter words and terms

plaudits Plaugher plaunotol plausible plausible assumption plausible candidate