Wednesday, February 22, 2006

Today's word is

verisimilitude \ver-uh-suh-MIL-uh-tood; -tyood\, noun:

1. The appearance of truth; the quality of seeming to be true. 2. Something that has the appearance of being true or real.

1 Comments:

At 4:40 AM , Blogger Justin DLC said...

You forgot the derivation!

Latin: verus, true + similis, like.

Related in derivation to verily (truthfully), verify (prove to be true), et al.

 

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