PLAUSIBLENESS

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

Apparent validity

Synonyms:

plausibility; plausibleness

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

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)