CREDIBILITY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does credibility mean? 

• CREDIBILITY (noun)
  The noun CREDIBILITY has 1 sense:

1. the quality of being believable or trustworthy

  Familiarity information: CREDIBILITY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CREDIBILITY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The quality of being believable or trustworthy

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

believability; credibility; credibleness

Hypernyms ("credibility" is a kind of...):

quality (an essential and distinguishing attribute of something or someone)

Attribute:

believable; credible (capable of being believed)

incredible; unbelievable (beyond belief or understanding)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "credibility"):

authenticity; genuineness; legitimacy (undisputed credibility)

cogency; rigor; rigour; validity (the quality of being valid and rigorous)

plausibility; plausibleness (apparent validity)

cred; street cred; street credibility (credibility among young fashionable urban individuals)

Antonym:

incredibility (the quality of being incredible)

Derivation:

credible (appearing to merit belief or acceptance)

credible (capable of being believed)

 Context examples 

Super-Earths are the most common type of planet to form around low-mass stars such as Barnard’s Star, lending credibility to this newly discovered planetary candidate.

(Super-Earth Discovered Around Barnard's Star, ESO)

In spite of the wives' agreement that such malevolence was beyond credibility, the dispute ended in a short struggle, and both wives were lifted kicking into the night.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)