| Plausibility 1. (n.) Something worthy of praise. 2. (n.) The quality of being plausible; speciousness. 3. (n.) Anything plausible or specious. Thesaurus Entries 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 |