inverisimilitude

Updated: May 2, 2025

In other words, nobody's work yet save in the special kinds had been capable of yielding a novel-formula: nobody had hit upon the most capital and fruitful novel-ideas. And nearly everybody had, in the kind, done work curiously and almost incomprehensibly faulty. Of these faults, the worst, perhaps, were classable under the general head of inverisimilitude.

George Saintsbury - The English Novel