Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The quality of being implausible; want of plausibility.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Lack of plausibility; the quality of being implausible.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Want of
plausibility ; the quality of beingimplausible . - noun That which makes something lacking in plausibility
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the quality of provoking disbelief
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Examples
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When the time came for her to talk about my manuscript she had the audience laughing over what she called the implausibility of my plot.
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To my mind, the only real implausibility is the idea of humans prevailing.
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The level of implausibility is not quite as high as two years ago, but it is still implausible.
Long Run Stock Returns, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
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Especially when it’s been 98% based in implausibility since day 1.
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Don't you mean "implausibility" For all the fancy words, you are arguing ignorance.
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TP: Don't you mean "implausibility" For all the fancy words, you are arguing ignorance.
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But at that moment outside the door of Eloise Hawking (that's Faraday's mother), with all those characters independently rendezvousing simultaneously - Desmond from London, Sun from Seoul, Jack from the depths of his drug addiction, Ben from a Schemers Anonymous meeting - I realized what genre "Lost '' most fully belongs to, the genre it defines: something one might call implausibility porn.
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"Fast Five" starts with a train robbery that sets a new standard for implausibility, then tops it by using the vault and the cables dragging it as a giant sling that lays waste to whatever happens to be in its way.
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As with all the “point-of-view” camera movies, the audience must be willing to accept a degree of implausibility with regard to the need for the protagonists to film EVERYTHING, but this film still failed to explain it satisfactorily.
Viewing enjoyment affected by very un- “Paranormal Activity” » Scene-Stealers
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Perhaps they are innocent, given the implausibility of a black market in human fat.
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