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How to pronounce verisimilitude in English?

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Type of color, colour, gloss, semblance

Examples of verisimilitude

verisimilitude
The poster, which shows Westbroek as Anna Nicole, has astonishing verisimilitude.
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Of course, it's not the kind of movie concerned with character or verisimilitude.
From the washingtonpost.com
Sony's obsession with verisimilitude is oddly out of place in a virtual world.
From the time.com
He stuck a head shot of the weasel family member in the ground for verisimilitude.
From the washingtonpost.com
I tried to do a story that added a little more verisimilitude than I usually have.
From the sacbee.com
Trendy acronyms for verisimilitude are one feature of Mr. Woodward's writing.
From the post-gazette.com
Still, verisimilitude is not high among the qualities we generally demand of opera.
From the nytimes.com
From the off there's a verisimilitude to the performance that's instantly familiar.
From the guardian.co.uk
To add to the verisimilitude, the device even sticks the stamps.on slightly crooked.
From the time.com
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  • The appearance of truth; the quality of seeming to be true
  • Verisimilitude (or truthlikeness) is the quality of realism in something (such as film, literature, the arts, etc).
  • Verisimilitude /u02CCvu025Bru026Asu026Au02C8mu026Alu026Atjuu02D0d/ is the "lifelikeness" or believability of a work of fiction. The word comes from Latin: verum meaning truth and similis meaning similar...
  • The property of seeming true, of resembling reality; resemblance to reality, realism; a statement which merely appears to be true
  • The trait of seeming truthful or appearing to be real, from the Latin veri similis, "like the truth"
  • The semblance to truth or actuality in characters or events that a novel or other fictional work possesses. To say that a work has a high degree of verisimilitude means that the work is very realistic and believable.
  • Having the semblance of truth; in research, it refers to the probability that the research findings are consistent with occurrences in the "real world."
  • The sense that what one reads is "real," or at least realistic and believable. For instance, the reader possesses a sense of verisimilitude when reading a story in which a character cuts his finger, and the finger bleeds. ...
  • The appearance of truth or reality, as opposed to fantasy, science fiction or the fairy tale. Verisimilitude usually refers to a real person, place, or thing described in much believable detail.