The quality of seeming true, or of seeming like real life. Notice that this is not the same as being true. A film, a novel, a painting, a stage set, an actor's crying — these can have verisimilitude, which means they feel real to you while you watch or read. A lie can also have verisimilitude: a good liar's story has small details that make it sound like something that really happened. So the word sits in a strange place. It is about the surface, about the look and feel of truth, not about the truth underneath. This is a formal, bookish word. You will meet it in film reviews, book reviews, and in writing about art and history — 'The film has a documentary verisimilitude', 'The novel achieves great verisimilitude in its dialogue'. Almost nobody says it in normal speech; if you said it to a friend they would probably smile at you. It is uncountable, and it very often comes after a verb like have, achieve, lack, lend, or after words like great, remarkable, surprising. When people say a work 'lacks verisimilitude', they mean the world in it does not hang together — the people do not talk like people, the details are wrong. One more thing worth saying: because the word is about seeming, some writers use it slightly sourly, to hint that a thing looks real but is hollow inside.

逼真、擬真（看起來像真的，但不等於是真的）