plausibility

plausibility
    n 1: apparent validity [syn: {plausibility}, {plausibleness}]
         [ant: {implausibility}, {implausibleness}]
    

Plausibility \Plau`si*bil"i*ty\, n. [Cf. F. plausibilit['e].]
   1. Something worthy of praise. [Obs.]
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            Integrity, fidelity, and other gracious
            plausibilities.                       --E. Vaughan.
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   2. The quality of being plausible; speciousness.
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            To give any plausibility to a scheme. --De Quincey.
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   3. Anything plausible or specious. --R. Browning.
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59 Moby Thesaurus words for "plausibility":
      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