believability

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Recent Examples of believability Interestingly, that adds to the believability as the animals appear even more real and emotions come across even stronger. Rick Mauch, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 24 Sep. 2025 Thus a lot of the narrative believability of the main characters’ dilemmas doesn’t always land. Ritesh Mehta, IndieWire, 27 Aug. 2025 Contemporary generative AI is so seemingly fluent that you are drawn into a mental trap of believability. Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 12 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for believability
Noun
  • That ensures long-term political credibility and shields against budgetary raids.
    Josh Green, Time, 30 Oct. 2025
  • In his remarks, Moss cast doubt on the credibility of that defense, repeatedly questioning the quick-twitch decision to demand that NPR no longer run the distribution system after such a longstanding arrangement.
    NPR, NPR, 30 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • There were innumerable explanations of varying degrees of plausibility, but that made the image interesting to him.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 14 Oct. 2025
  • What makes cinematic depictions of disaster so compelling — when they’re done right, that is — is the uneasy dance between plausibility and fantasy.
    Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 19 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Still, the veracity of that statement remains in question and a judge and jury have yet to decide.
    Brenna Ehrlich, Rolling Stone, 26 Oct. 2025
  • The docuseries delves into his childhood and early years as a student filmmaker to show the world of his movies – among the highlights are interviews with his childhood friends from the streets of Manhattan, whose lives and language reveal the veracity in his films.
    Stuart Miller, Oc Register, 13 Oct. 2025

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“Believability.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/believability. Accessed 5 Nov. 2025.

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