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What does verisimilitude mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word verisimilitude? Here's what it means.

Noun
  1. The property of seeming true, of resembling reality; resemblance to reality, realism.
  2. A statement which merely appears to be true.
  3. (fiction) Faithfulness to its own rules; internal cohesion.
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They situate and reassure the reader by promoting verisimilitude, the quality of appearing to be real.
We have the following conversation which I shall translate into the dialect for verisimilitude.
I'm writing about an experience that isn't my own, and in order to ensure some degree of verisimilitude, I use details from my own experience.
In other words, Clarissa's language mirrors the novel's verisimilitude, while Lovelace's repeats the figures of fiction's past.
This is a very slight discrepancy from strict verisimilitude here, but one that revealingly triggers disproportionate reactions among critics.
That is, does it have verisimilitude, the appearance of being true or real?

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