Probable vs Verisimilar - What's the difference?
probable | verisimilar |
Likely or most likely to be true.
Likely to happen.
Supporting, or giving ground for, belief, but not demonstrating.
(obsolete) Capable of being proved.
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 probable and verisimilar
is that probable is likely or most likely to be true while verisimilar is appearing to be true or real; probable; likely.probable
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- It's probable that it will rain tomorrow.
- The probable source of the failure was the mass of feathers in the intake manifold.
- With all the support we have, success is looking probable .
- probable''' evidence; '''probable presumption
- (Blackstone)