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credibility
/ˌkɹɛdəˈbɪlɪti/
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What does credibility mean?
noun
- A reputation impacting one's ability to be believed.
- A believability of statements by a witness, as measured by whether the testimony is probable or improbable when judged by common experience.
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IPA pronunciation
/ˌkɹɛdəˈbɪlɪti/
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Beijing thus has periodically backtracked, retightening central controls at intervals and thereby undermining the credibility of the reform process.
By the facts recently discovered, a credibility is added to the Mosaic account of the peopling of the earth.
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He was attacking the credibility of a witness whom he had put on the stand, but who had been tampered with by the opposition lawyers.
It is now pretty well known that this is a mere fable, originating in the love of the marvellous which distinguished the early Spanish adventurers, and impaired the credibility of their narratives.
Oftener, however, its credibility rested on the faith of some lonely eye-witness, who beheld the wonder through the coloured, magnifying, and distorted medium of his imagination, and shaped it more distinctly in his after-thought.