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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
acceptability, admissibility, apparent soundness, believability, believableness, casuistry, circularity, color, common sense, conceivability, credibility, credit, disingenuousness, distortion, equivocalness, equivocation, evasive reasoning, fallaciousness, fallacy, insincerity, jesuitism, jesuitry, justifiability, justness, logic, logicality, logicalness, misapplication, mystification, obfuscation, obscurantism, oversubtlety, perversion, philosophism, plausibleness, rationality, rationalization, reason, reasonability, reasonableness, reliability, sense, sensibleness, sophism, sophistical reasoning, sophistication, sophistry, sound sense, soundness, special pleading, speciosity, specious reasoning, speciousness, subtlety, sweet reason, tenability, trustworthiness, vicious circle, vicious reasoning
Dictionary Results for plausibility:
1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
plausibility
    n 1: apparent validity [syn: plausibility, plausibleness]
         [ant: implausibility, implausibleness]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Plausibility \Plau`si*bil"i*ty\, n. [Cf. F. plausibilit['e].]
   1. Something worthy of praise. [Obs.]
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            Integrity, fidelity, and other gracious
            plausibilities.                       --E. Vaughan.
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   2. The quality of being plausible; speciousness.
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            To give any plausibility to a scheme. --De Quincey.
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   3. Anything plausible or specious. --R. Browning.
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