plausibility

plausibility (countable and uncountable, plural plausibilities)

1. The quality of being plausible; speciousness.
2. Anything plausible or specious.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of R. Browning to this entry?)

3. (obsolete) Something worthy of praise.
   • E. Vaughan

     integrity, fidelity, and other gracious plausibilities

• implausibility

• plausibility in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• plausibility in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.