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countable and uncountable, plural verisimilitudes
The property of seeming true, of resembling reality; resemblance to reality, realism. examples
A statement which merely appears to be true. examples
(in composing a fiction): Faithfulness to its own rules; internal cohesion. quotations examples
On July 12, Madame filed suit for divorce, naming one Jane McManus as his principal mistress. Other adulteries were noted in the interest of verisimilitude.
1973, Gore Vidal, chapter 16, in Burr