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The quality of being believable or trustworthy
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credibility
Word definitions for credibility in dictionaries
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. the quality of being believable or trustworthy [syn: credibleness , believability ] [ant: incredibility ]
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Credibility refers to the objective and subjective components of the believability of a source or message. Traditionally, modern, credibility, reliability has two key components: trustworthiness and expertise, which both have objective and subjective components. ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES be/go beyond the bounds of credibility/reason/decency etc ▪ The humor in the movie sometimes goes beyond the bounds of good taste. gain credibility (= start to be believed or trusted, or start to be thought of as good ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Credibility \Cred`i*bil"i*ty\ (kr[e^]d`[i^]*b[i^]l"[i^]*t[y^]), n. [Cf. F. cr['e]dibilit['e].] The quality of being credible; credibleness; as, the credibility of facts; the credibility of witnesses.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 reputation impacting one's ability to be believed. 2 (context legal English) believability of statements by a witness, as measured by whether the testimony is probable or improbable when judged by common experience.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1590s, from Medieval Latin credibilitas , from Latin credibilis (see credible ). Credibility gap is 1966, American English, in reference to official statements about the Vietnam War.
Usage examples of credibility.
Once this hits the airwaves, my credibility is suspect and my effectiveness on the job suffers.
Her magic, the natural, irresistible glamourie of all nymphs, was very like his own special powers of enchantment, which enabled him to imbue even the most absurd falsehoods with the credibility of irrefutable fact.
The White House was at the center, and the Justice Department also would have zero credibility investigating its own bureau or the White House.
Given his position of prominence within the Church, Lester Horner knew that his involvement in any discovery about the Lamanites would add a measure of credibility to what would certainly be contentious findings.
Profit margins, credibility at the cutting edge, scarcity value, and oversubscription in the market place.
Crusty and plainspoken as he is, Andy has that kind of credibility with viewers.
The purpose of raising such questions is not to undermine the credibility of science but to encourage the healthy note of skepticism concerning unchallenged assumptions that has always helped sustain the rigor of scientific inquiry.
But now quantum theory, the most successful of all physical theories, appears to be the single greatest threat to the credibility of the metaphysical assumptions of scientific materialism.
In turn, he would help her restore the credibility and effectiveness of the Druids throughout the Four Lands.
This lab could go a long way toward restoring the credibility of evidence in criminal investigations and prosecutions.
Tir Tairngire together and Coleman backed them, he lost a lot of credibility with some of the tribal councils because of his policy of welcoming metahumans into Indian lands.
Marlow identified with Lord Jim was beyond either help or any hope of credibility, I felt, and for the next seven or eight years I dismissed everything Wicker wrote as the mumblings of a hired fool.
He accuses him of patching his plays together without caring twopence for credibility, of dealing in fantastic fables and impossible situations, of making all his characters talk in an artificial flowery language completely unlike that of real life.
If there was a connection between the murderer and sunflowers, it added credibility to his theory.
I am not about to risk the credibility of my entire tale by claiming that prothonotary warblers rival the Boston Pops Orchestra with their songs.