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noun

verisimilitude

CEFR C2

the appearance of being true or real

In a sentence

Six example sentences with verisimilitude, each labelled with its topic.

  • The director shot in the actual factory for verisimilitude, and the noise forced the actors to shout their lines.

    Movies

  • Defoe achieves verisimilitude by burying invented events under lists of prices, street names and weather nobody would bother to fake.

    Literature

  • The flight simulator's verisimilitude comes from small things: a coffee stain on the panel and a sticky trim wheel.

    Gaming

  • The painted ceiling achieves such verisimilitude that visitors crane their necks looking for a balcony that is not there.

    Art

  • Voice assistants gain verisimilitude from small pauses and breaths, so callers forget they are talking to a program.

    Technology

  • The reconstructed village aims for verisimilitude, with hand-forged nails and roof beams cut by the same tools the settlers used.

    Architecture

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