credibility

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɹɛd.ə.ˈbɪ.ɫɪ.ti/

• Audio (Southern England)

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Noun

credibility (countable and uncountable, plural credibilities)

1. Reputation impacting one's ability to be believed.

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

   • 2022 January 26, “Network News: DfT awaits verdict on COVID 'partygate' scandal”, in RAIL, number 949, page 6:

     The 'partygate' controversy has played a major part in undermining the credibility of Boris Johnson and his Government and has led to calls from senior MPs for him to resign.

2. (law) Believability of statements by a witness, as measured by whether the testimony is probable or improbable when judged by common experience.

Synonyms

• (reputation impacting one's ability to be believed): believability, personal capital

Coordinate terms

• cred

Derived terms

• credibility gap
• street credibility

 

Related terms

• credence
• credible
• credit

Translations

reputation impacting one's ability to be believed

• Afrikaans: geloofwaardigheid
• Arabic: مِصْدَاقِيّة f (miṣdāqiyya)
• Armenian: արժանահավատություն (hy) (aržanahavatutʻyun)
• Belarusian: крэдыт даверу (kredyt davjeru)
• Catalan: credibilitat (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 可靠性 (zh) (kěkàoxìng), 可信性 (kěxìnxìng)

• Czech: důvěryhodnost (cs) f
• Dutch: geloofwaardigheid (nl) f
• Finnish: uskottavuus (fi), uskottavuus (fi)
• French: crédibilité (fr) f
• Galician: credibilidade (gl) f
• Georgian: დამაჯერებლობა (damaǯerebloba), საიმედოობა (saimedooba), სანდოობა (sandooba)
• German: Glaubwürdigkeit (de) f
• Hebrew: אמינות (he) f (aminút), אמון (he) m (emún)
• Hungarian: hihetőség (hu), szavahihetőség (hu)
• Irish: inchreidteacht f
• Italian: credibilità (it) f
• Japanese: 信用性 (shin'yō-sē)
• Manx: yn-chredjallys m
• Norwegian: troverdighet m
• Polish: wiarygodność (pl) f
• Portuguese: credibilidade f
• Romanian: credibilitate (ro)
• Russian: креди́т доверия (ru) (kredít doverija)
• Scottish Gaelic: creideas m
• Spanish: credibilidad (es) f
• Swedish: trovärdighet (sv) c
• Ukrainian: please add this translation if you can

law: whether or not a witness is being truthful

• Belarusian: верагоднасць f (vjerahódnascʹ)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 可靠性 (zh) (kěkàoxìng), 可信性 (kěxìnxìng)

• Finnish: uskottavuus (fi)
• Georgian: უტყუარობა (uṭq̇uaroba), სანდოობა (sandooba)
• German: Glaubwürdigkeit (de) f
• Irish: creidiúnacht f
• Polish: wiarygodność (pl) f
• Romanian: credibilitate (ro) f
• Russian: достове́рность (ru) (dostovérnostʹ)

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• Spanish: ^{(please verify)} credibilidad (es) f