Dictionary Definition
plausibility n : apparent validity [syn: plausibleness] [ant:
implausibility]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Noun
- Something worthy of praise.
- The quality of being plausible; speciousness.
- Anything plausible or specious
References
.Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
acceptability, admissibility, apparent
soundness, believability, believableness, casuistry, circularity, color, common sense, conceivability, credibility, credit, disingenuousness,
distortion, equivocalness, equivocation, evasive
reasoning, fallaciousness, fallacy, insincerity, jesuitism, jesuitry, justifiability, justness, logic, logicality, logicalness, misapplication, mystification, obfuscation, obscurantism, oversubtlety, perversion, philosophism, plausibleness, rationality, rationalization,
reason, reasonability, reasonableness, reliability, sense, sensibleness, sophism, sophistical reasoning,
sophistication,
sophistry, sound
sense, soundness,
special pleading, speciosity, specious
reasoning, speciousness, subtlety, sweet reason,
tenability, trustworthiness, vicious
circle, vicious reasoning