Verisimilitude: meaning, example and synonyms

Verisimilituden. The appearance of being true or real.

Flashcard for Verisimilitude (noun): the appearance of being true or real. Example: To add verisimilitude to the film, the director hired local fishermen instead of actors and shot every scene on working boats. Synonyms: realism, authenticity, believability, plausibility. Antonyms: implausibility, unreality, falseness, artificiality. Memory tip: veri ("true") + similis ("like"): looking like the truth. Illustration: a film crew on a real fishing boat at sea filming fishermen hauling nets, fully clothed in rain gear.

Example

To add verisimilitude to the film, the director hired local fishermen instead of actors and shot every scene on working boats.

Part of speech
noun
Synonyms
realism, authenticity, believability, plausibility
Antonyms
implausibility, unreality, falseness, artificiality
Memory tip
veri ("true") + similis ("like"): looking like the truth.

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Question 1

The novelist visited the mining town for months, hoping the details she gathered would give her story greater ______.

Question 2

The museum's diorama achieves remarkable ______, with real soil, preserved plants and animals posed exactly as field biologists observed them.

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