belief vs verisimilitude

belief

noun
  • The quality or state of believing. 

  • Mental acceptance of a claim as true. 

  • Religious faith. 

  • One's religious or moral convictions. 

  • Faith or trust in the reality of something; often based upon one's own reasoning, trust in a claim, desire of actuality, and/or evidence considered. 

  • Something believed. 

verisimilitude

noun
  • The property of seeming true, of resembling reality; resemblance to reality, realism. 

  • A statement which merely appears to be true. 

  • Faithfulness to its own rules; internal cohesion. 

How often have the words belief and verisimilitude occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )