Commensurate vs Verisimilar - What's the difference?
commensurate | verisimilar |
Of a proportionate or similar measurable standard.
To reduce to a common measure.
To proportionate; to adjust.
Appearing to be true or real; probable; likely.
*2012 , Matthew Adams, ‘Losing It’, Literary Review , 401:
*:Joyce's objection was founded in [...] a reaction to the doggedly linear, heavily patterned artifice of the nineteenth-century novel, the verisimilar credentials of which existed – so, at any rate, the argument runs – in inverse proportion to the conventionality of its narrative style.
As adjectives the difference between commensurate and verisimilar
is that commensurate is of a proportionate or similar measurable standard while verisimilar is appearing to be true or real; probable; likely.As a verb commensurate
is to reduce to a common measure.commensurate
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- If it is essential in our interests to maintain a quasi-permanent position of power on the Asian mainland as against the Chinese then we must be prepared to continue to pay the present cost in Vietnam indefinitely and to meet any escalation on the other side with at least a commensurate escalation of commitment of our own. - Report to the President on Southeast Asia-Vietnam by Senator Mike Mansfield, December 18, 1962
Antonyms
* incommensurateVerb
(commensurat)- (Sir Thomas Browne)