verisimilar

comparative more verisimilar · superlative most verisimilar

1. Appearing to be true or real; probable; likely.

   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.

   2012, Matthew Adams, “Losing It”, in Literary Review, section 401

2. fictionFaithful to its own rules; internally consistent.