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Verisimilar vs Lifelike - What's the difference?

verisimilar | lifelike |

As adjectives the difference between verisimilar and lifelike

is that verisimilar is appearing to be true or real; probable; likely while lifelike is like a living being, resembling life, giving an accurate representation, as, a lifelike portrait.

verisimilar

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • 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.

    • Related terms

    * verisimilitude * verisimilarity * verisimilitudinous

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    lifelike

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Like a living being, resembling life, giving an accurate representation, as, a lifelike portrait.
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    • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=1 , passage=The stories did not seem to me to touch life. […] They left me with the impression of a well-delivered stereopticon lecture, with characters about as life-like as the shadows on the screen, and whisking on and off, at the mercy of the operator.}}