verisimilitude
noun
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From its roots, verisimilitude means basically "similarity to the truth". Most fiction writers and filmmakers aim at some kind of verisimilitude to give their stories an air of reality. They need not show something actually true, or even very common, but simply something believable. A mass of good details in a play, novel, painting, or film may add verisimilitude. A spy novel without some verisimilitude won't interest many readers, but a fantastical novel may not even attempt to seem true to life.
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Erik Kain, Forbes, 7 Oct. 2024
For as well as Challengers does with verisimilitude up until this point, Guadagnino cheerfully throws realism out of the window here.
—Joe Reid, Vulture, 26 Apr. 2024
Tommy speaks fluent Spanish, which gave his dialogue with the van full of Mexican illegals a wonderful verisimilitude.
—Lizz Schumer, People.com, 30 Sep. 2024
More than a bit inspired by Guillermo del Toro’s The Devil’s Backbone, The Orphanage weaves a similarly melancholy and thematically rich haunted house tale that calls on the country’s complicated past to inflect its plot with verisimilitude.
—Declan Gallagher, EW.com, 15 Sep. 2024
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“Verisimilitude.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/verisimilitude. Accessed 23 Nov. 2024.
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