CREDIBLENESS

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

The quality of being believable or trustworthy

Synonyms:

believability; credibility; credibleness

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Hypernyms ("credibleness" 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 "credibleness"):

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

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

Derivation:

credible (appearing to merit belief or acceptance)

credible (capable of being believed)

credible ((a common but incorrect usage where 'credulous' would be appropriate) credulous)