Definition of plausibility
plausibilities
1 : the quality or state of being plausible
2 : something plausible
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Overall, the results could have potential plausibility, but age does seem to take a grand toll.
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So little is known of Shakespeare himself — cities of supposition have been built on a foundation of crumbs — that there is a lot of room to go with interpretation that still falls within the range of plausibility, not to say scholarly approval.
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But the idea that Sean Spicer has been body-shamed out of the spotlight still holds a patina of plausibility.
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Most historical biographies on film behave as tidy museum pieces, however lifelessly, while others strive for modernity at the expense of plausibility.
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Schilling accepts the plausibility that white people are persecuted, but not that anyone would yell the n-word from the anonymity of ballpark seats, nestled among thousands, while Jones has his back turned.
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Expecting plausibility from dystopian fiction is like expecting haute cuisine from a highway service area.
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The blank, naturalistic plausibility of, say, a splash of river water on a wrist is enough—minus a block of text in explanatory art-catalogue prose—to change a mind forever.
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The form was strewn with pitfalls, among them a tendency to sermonize, a veering into allegory and a lack of plausibility.
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First Known Use of plausibility
1649
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