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REPUTABILITY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does reputability mean?
• REPUTABILITY (noun)
The noun REPUTABILITY has 1 sense:
1. honorableness by virtue of being respectable and having a good reputation
Familiarity information: REPUTABILITY used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Honorableness by virtue of being respectable and having a good reputation
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Synonyms:
reputability; respectability
Hypernyms ("reputability" is a kind of...):
honorableness; honourableness (the quality of deserving honor or respect; characterized by honor)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "reputability"):
decency (the quality of being polite and respectable)
Antonym:
disreputability (dishonorableness by virtue of lacking respectability or a good reputation)
Derivation:
reputable (having a good reputation)
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