PLAUSIBLENESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does plausibleness mean? 

• PLAUSIBLENESS (noun)
  The noun PLAUSIBLENESS has 1 sense:

1. apparent validity

  Familiarity information: PLAUSIBLENESS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PLAUSIBLENESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Apparent validity

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

plausibility; plausibleness

Hypernyms ("plausibleness" is a kind of...):

believability; credibility; credibleness (the quality of being believable or trustworthy)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "plausibleness"):

reasonableness; tenability; tenableness (the quality of being plausible or acceptable to a reasonable person)

Derivation:

plausible (apparently reasonable and credible, and therefore convincing)