🇰🇷Korean Source WordCode: KO

타당성

Pronunciation / Transliteration: tadangseong

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Plausibility/ˌplɔː.zəˈbɪl.ə.ti/
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🇰🇷 Example Sentence in Korean:

"그 주장은 과학적 타당성이 부족하다."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

1 sense
As noun
  1. 1

    The quality of seeming reasonable or probable.

    "The detective doubted the plausibility of the suspect's alibi."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the Latin 'plaudere' meaning 'to applaud', evolving through Middle French 'plausible' into the 17th-century English noun form. It historically shifted from denoting something worthy of applause or approval to signifying a statement that appears worthy of belief or reasonable.

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