plausibility
/plˌɔzɪbˈɪlɪti/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.55 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
5
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The quality of deserving applause, praiseworthiness; something worthy of praise.
Countable; Obsolete; Uncountable
noun
The appearance of truth, especially when deceptive; speciousness.
Archaic; Countable; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "integrity, fidelity, and other gracious plausibilities"
- "Plausibility, I know, can only be unmasked by shewing the absurdities it glosses over, and the simple truths it involves with specious errors."
- "She too must shimmer through the gloom o' the grave, / Come and confront me— […] / Striking me dumb, and helping her to speak, / Tell her own story her own way, and turn / My plausibility to nothingness!"
- "The question of the plausibility of the counter-factual is seen as key in all three discussions of allohistorical fiction (as it is in Demandt's and Ferguson's examinations of allohistory) (cf. Rodiek 25–26; Ritter 15–16; Helbig 32)."