Word of the Day – Verisimilitude

Verisimilitude (noun)

ve-ris-im-il-i-tood

The appearance of being true and real.

Early 17th century: from Latin verisimilitudo, from verisimilis ‘probable’, from veri (genitive of verus ‘true’) + similis ‘like’.

Example sentences

“The depth of characters gave the novel such verisimilitude.”