Hypertext Webster Gateway: "plausibility"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Plausibility \Plau`si*bil"i*ty\, n. [Cf. F. plausibilit['e].]
1. Something worthy of praise. [Obs.]
Integrity, fidelity, and other gracious
plausibilities. --E. Vaughan.
2. The quality of being plausible; speciousness.
To give any plausibility to a scheme. --De Quincey.
3. Anything plausible or specious. --R. Browning.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
plausibility
n : apparent validity [syn: {plausibleness}] [ant: {implausibility}]
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