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verisimilitude By the beginning of the 20th century, the leading European painters were losing interest in verisimilitude and beginning to experiment with abstraction. ˌvɛrəsəˈmɪləˌtud

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(1) The appearance of being true or probable. (2) The depiction of realism in art or literature. 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

word	verisimilitude
definition	(1) The appearance of being true or probable. (2) The depiction of realism in art or literature.
eg_sentence	By the beginning of the 20th century, the leading European painters were losing interest in verisimilitude and beginning to experiment with abstraction.
explanation	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
IPA	ˌvɛrəsəˈmɪləˌtud

Verisimilitude True Beginning Interest Appearance Probable Depiction Realism