Associations to the word «Verisimilitude»

Wiktionary

VERISIMILITUDE, noun. The property of seeming true, of resembling reality; resemblance to reality, realism.
VERISIMILITUDE, noun. A statement which merely appears to be true.

Dictionary definition

VERISIMILITUDE, noun. The appearance of truth; the quality of seeming to be true.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats