verisimilitude

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Such scenes as the slaughtering and rendering of a pig and the struggle to turn lumber into charcoal carry with them an uncanny verisimilitude, almost as if we were watching some film captured through time-travel, but with an emotional "soundtrack" as well.

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  1. noun The quality of appearing to be true or real. See Synonyms at truth.
  2. noun Something that has the appearance of being true or real.

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  • That I knew Elvis, John, and Andy, had friends in common with Monroe and Dean, and can present a unique kind of verisimilitude isn't necessarily acceptable to their most die-hard fans, who are quick to condemn me in e-mails to my Web site (www. robertslevinson.com). —  Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine
  • Just for the sake of verisimilitude, Locke had a stack of papers on the table. —  Phoenix And Ashes
  • Such scenes as the slaughtering and rendering of a pig and the struggle to turn lumber into charcoal carry with them an uncanny verisimilitude, almost as if we were watching some film captured through time-travel, but with an emotional "soundtrack" as well. —  New Race
  • If the medical passages in the story are accurate and have verisimilitude, then credit should go to Dr. Jim Willerson. —  The Garden of Rama
  • Doing so would do much to enrich verisimilitude, which a great number of godlike narratives have been lacking of late.) —  An East Wind Coming
 

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  1. Latin vērīsimilitūdō, from vērīsimilis, verisimilar; see verisimilar.

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  1. = Spanish verisimilitud = Portuguese verisimilitude = Italian verisimilitudine, from Latin verisimilitudo, prop, veri similitudo, likeness to truth: veri, genitive of verum, truth; similitudo, likeness: see similitude, and cf. verisimilar.
 

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