Meaning

2 senses
  1. (countable, uncountable)A reputation impacting one's ability to be believed.

    After weeks of blowing smoke, her credibility with me was next to nil.

    Glaubwürdigkeit

    креди́т доверияkredít doverija

  2. (countable, uncountable)A believability of statements by a witness, as measured by whether the testimony is probable or improbable when judged by common experience.

    Glaubwürdigkeit

    достове́рностьdostovérnostʹ

More definitions
  • the quality of being believable or trustworthy

Examples

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  1. We don't want to lose our credibility.

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  2. We need to assess the credibility of this information.

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  3. Tom lost his credibility.

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  4. You've lost your credibility.

    deIhr habt eure Glaubwürdigkeit verloren.

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  5. They've lost all credibility.

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Translations

7 languages
Русский
By meaning 2
reputation impacting one's ability to be believed:
law: whether or not a witness is being truthful:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
reputation impacting one's ability to be believed:

Origin

Borrowed from French crédibilité, from Medieval Latin credibilitas, from Latin credibilis.

Borrowed from French crédibilité, from Medieval Latin credibilitas, from Latin credibilis. By surface analysis, credible + -ity.

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Forms

plural: credibilities
Singularcredibility
Pluralcredibilities

regular

Synonyms

3 synonyms
reputation impacting one's ability to be believed:believabilitypersonal capital
Close in meaning

Antonyms

1 antonyms

Word family

5 related words

See also

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