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Perhaps...

I think the word that covers everything is "consistent".

If your story contains nothing that jars the reader out of his reading trance, then you're doing fine.

As long as you write in a consistent way, you don't need to worry about realism or verisimilitude or whether any body is likeable or not. Part of being consistent is how good you are at creating a fictional world, because no matter how closely your fictional world might resemble the real world, it has to be consistent with itself and not with the real world. Even if it's a fantasy world it still needs to be consistent with itself.