as in realism
realistic depiction in art and literature the novel's degree of verisimilitude is compromised by 18th-century characters who speak in very 21st-century English

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Recent Examples of verisimilitude That should turn our attention to those strictures, rather than to questioning the verisimilitude of her melodramatic doom. Literary Hub, 2 Sep. 2025 Both shows bypass verisimilitude on their way to truer observations about our current reality. Lauren Michele Jackson, New Yorker, 23 Aug. 2025 Bailey’s misfortune and Alonso’s vertical verisimilitude resulted in just one of the Giants’ eight hitless at-bats with runners in scoring position. Andrew Baggarly, New York Times, 27 July 2025 Like a film or a novel, architectural restoration manipulates time, reversing, stopping, and tricking it, all in pursuit of verisimilitude. Justin Davidson, Curbed, 10 July 2025 See All Example Sentences for verisimilitude
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realism
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  • The brutal, provocative opening scene featuring Xavier Dolan depicting the realism of bigotry and hate is stomach-churning, but fits into the dark atmosphere of the source material.
    Samantha Allen, Them., 7 Oct. 2025
  • Climate fiction is one reason ‘dystopian realism’ is increasingly ‘near-future’ rather than set in some inscrutable distant time.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 6 Oct. 2025

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“Verisimilitude.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/verisimilitude. Accessed 10 Oct. 2025.

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