Plausibility

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Meaning

(obsolete) The quality of deserving applause, praiseworthiness; something worthy of praise..

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1. (obsolete) The quality of deserving applause, praiseworthiness; something worthy of praise.
2. (now rare) The appearance of truth, especially when deceptive; speciousness.
3. A plausible statement, argument etc.
4. (now in more positive sense) The fact of being believable; believability, credibility.

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integrity, fidelity, and other gracious plausibilities

Plausibility, I know, can only be unmasked by shewing the absurdities it glosses over, and the simple truths it involves with specious errors.

She too must shimmer through the gloom o' the grave, / Come and confront me— […] / Striking me dumb, and helping her to speak, / Tell her own story her own way, and turn / My plausibility to nothingness!

The question of the plausibility of the counter-factual is seen as key in all three discussions of allohistorical fiction (as it is in Demandt's and Ferguson's examinations of allohistory) (cf. Rodiek 25–26; Ritter 15–16; Helbig 32).

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