credibilityn.

Brit.

/ˌkrɛdᵻˈbɪlᵻti/, U.S.

/ˌkrɛdəˈbɪlədi/

Forms: 1500s credabilitie (Scottish), 1500s–1600s credibilitie, 1600s– credibility.

Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin credibilitas.

Etymology: < post-classical Latin credibilitas credence, belief (13th cent. in a British source; 15th cent. in a continental source) < classical Latin crēdibilis credible adj. + -tās (see -ty suffix¹; compare -ity suffix). Compare French credibilité (1651).

1. The quality or state of being credible; capacity to be believed or believed in.

a. Generally.street credibility: see the first element.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > belief > belief, trust, confidence > credibility > [noun]

credencec1450

credit1552

credibilitya1572

credibleness1595

creditableness1660

believablenessa1680

creditability1808

faithworthiness1828

tenability1845

tenableness1849

believability1865

cred1982

a1572 J. Knox Hist. Reformation Scotl. in Wks. (1848) II. 9 Thei did so valiantlie, that it passed all credabilitie.

1593 R. Hooker Of Lawes Eccl. Politie ii. iv. 102 Sith the ground of credite is the credibilitie of thinges credited; and things are made credible, eyther by the knowne condition and qualitie of the vtterer, or by the manifest likelihood of truth which they haue in themselues.

1659 J. Pearson Expos. Creed (1839) 4 The credibility of objects..is distinguishable..according to the different authority of the testimony on which it depends.

1727 N. Lardner (title) The credibility of the Gospel history: or, the facts occasionally mention'd in the New Testament; confirmed by passages of ancient authors.

1797 R. Beilby & T. Bewick Hist. Brit. Birds I. Introd. p. x The extraordinary powers of the gizzard..would exceed all credibility.

1812 P. B. Shelley Let. 3 Feb. (1964) I. 249 The opinion of the world is not the likeliest criminator to impeach their credibility.

1883 J. A. Froude Short Stud. IV. ii. iv. 220 Christianity..rests on the credibility of the Gospel history.

1920 Living Age 6 Nov. 350/1 The first difficulty is credibility, to make your story real.

1964 J. B. Steane Marlowe (1970) i. i. 8 The desperation of the grovelling..weakens the credibility of his charges.

2009 L. F. Edwards People & their Peace ii. iv. 113 When doubts arose about testimony, they usually involved the credibility of the speakers, rather than the substance of what they said.

b. spec. In contexts of a defence policy based on the theory of the effectiveness of a nuclear deterrent.

ΘΚΠ

society > armed hostility > defence > [noun] > means of defence > specific defence system > credibility of defence system

credibility1958

1958 Times 15 Oct. 13/7 As active deterrence is seen to be beyond the reach even of the super-Powers, its credibility will continue to decline.

1962 Listener 2 Aug. 161/2 Worry about the credibility of massive retaliation so long as America alone has the power to start it has been racking Nato for several years.

1987 D. F. Thompson Polit. Ethics & Public Office i. 34 The very uncertainty on which the defenders of deterrence rely to maintain the credibility of the deterrent tends to undermine its control in an organizational setting.

2006 Foreign Affairs Sept. 11/2 Questions about the credibility of such ‘extended deterrence’ were never fully resolved, but their urgency was lessened..by Washington's decision to bind itself tightly to its NATO partners.

2. An instance, case, or degree of being credible; a credible thing, a piece of credible evidence.

ΚΠ

1609 R. Parsons Quiet Reckoning ii. 85 To fill Princes eares with possibilities onely of dangers without some particuler circumstances of probabilities or credibilities, is an officious wounding them vnder pretence of fawning good will.

1630 J. Sharpe Triall Protestant Priuate Spirit i. 26 We haue many, & those forcible reasons , perswasions, and credibilities which may in prudence persuade any Pagan neuer admitted to it.

1663 J. Taylor Serm. Funeral Abp. Armagh 7 If this be not sufficient credibility in a matter of Fact..then we can have no Story credibly transmitted... Then we may be as sure that Christ..is already risen, as all these credibilities can make us.

1737 W. Lee Ess. Value of Leases & Annuities iii. 453 The Dealer in Credibilities can never meet with a Disappointment.

?1790 A. Macdonald Laura I. xv. 206 He [sc. Hume] doubted and disbelieved whatever he thought inconvenient, and only admitted as credibilities such things as pleased him.

1806 Monthly Rev. Dec. 383 Thus the doctrines of Revelation may be said to stamp a credibility on the history of its miraculous introduction.

1853 L. Hunt Relig. of Heart 199 Does it need glosses, commentators, expositors, explainers, investigators of manuscripts, reconcilers of credibilities?

1916 Catholic World Apr. 81 There are excellent credibilities for believing him to have been one of us.

1970 L. S. Champion Evol. Shakespeare's Comedy (1973) ii. 47 They are staged relatively infrequently; and thus armchair critics or readers more easily fall prey to the tendency to seek in the character a credibility and consistency which belie his dramatic purposes and destroy the comic tone.

2004 R. Hoggart Mass Media in Mass Society (2005) viii. 190 They [sc. C. S. Lewis and George Orwell] dealt in credibilities which were not derisory, such as loyalty, affection, neighbourliness and kindness.

Compounds

credibility gap n. originally U.S. a discrepancy between what is said or promised and what happens or is true; a disinclination to accept (esp. official) statements at face value.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > belief > disbelief, incredulity > [noun] > state of

incredulity1430

inconvictedness1664

inconviction1664

inconvincibility1882

incredibility1882

credibility gap1962

1962 Dunkirk (N.Y.) Evening Observer 3 Dec. 1/8 Sen. Kenneth B. Keating..said today the United States must close the ‘credibility gap’ with Russia if the world is to avoid a nuclear war. The credibility gap, Keating said, is the failure to convince Russia that the United States means what it says about defending its interests.

1966 Guardian 28 Dec. 6/1 Official American statements are no longer taken on trust... The phenomenon..is called the ‘credibility gap’.

1967 M. McCarthy in Observer 30 Apr. 12 We do not recognise them, helmeted, in a bomber aiming cans of napalm at a thatched village. We have a credibility gap.

1994 Remnant 15 July 10/2 Vatican legislation is coming to them across a credibility gap which grows larger by the hour.

2011 M. McCombs et al. News & Public Opinion i. iii. 47 The news credibility gaps between Democrats and Republicans are staggering.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	credibility
释义	credibilityn. Brit. /ˌkrɛdᵻˈbɪlᵻti/, U.S. /ˌkrɛdəˈbɪlədi/ Forms: 1500s credabilitie (Scottish), 1500s–1600s credibilitie, 1600s– credibility. Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin credibilitas. Etymology: < post-classical Latin credibilitas credence, belief (13th cent. in a British source; 15th cent. in a continental source) < classical Latin crēdibilis credible adj. + -tās (see -ty suffix¹; compare -ity suffix). Compare French credibilité (1651). 1. The quality or state of being credible; capacity to be believed or believed in. a. Generally.street credibility: see the first element. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > belief > belief, trust, confidence > credibility > [noun] credencec1450 credit1552 credibilitya1572 credibleness1595 creditableness1660 believablenessa1680 creditability1808 faithworthiness1828 tenability1845 tenableness1849 believability1865 cred1982 a1572 J. Knox Hist. Reformation Scotl. in Wks. (1848) II. 9 Thei did so valiantlie, that it passed all credabilitie. 1593 R. Hooker Of Lawes Eccl. Politie ii. iv. 102 Sith the ground of credite is the credibilitie of thinges credited; and things are made credible, eyther by the knowne condition and qualitie of the vtterer, or by the manifest likelihood of truth which they haue in themselues. 1659 J. Pearson Expos. Creed (1839) 4 The credibility of objects..is distinguishable..according to the different authority of the testimony on which it depends. 1727 N. Lardner (title) The credibility of the Gospel history: or, the facts occasionally mention'd in the New Testament; confirmed by passages of ancient authors. 1797 R. Beilby & T. Bewick Hist. Brit. Birds I. Introd. p. x The extraordinary powers of the gizzard..would exceed all credibility. 1812 P. B. Shelley Let. 3 Feb. (1964) I. 249 The opinion of the world is not the likeliest criminator to impeach their credibility. 1883 J. A. Froude Short Stud. IV. ii. iv. 220 Christianity..rests on the credibility of the Gospel history. 1920 Living Age 6 Nov. 350/1 The first difficulty is credibility, to make your story real. 1964 J. B. Steane Marlowe (1970) i. i. 8 The desperation of the grovelling..weakens the credibility of his charges. 2009 L. F. Edwards People & their Peace ii. iv. 113 When doubts arose about testimony, they usually involved the credibility of the speakers, rather than the substance of what they said. b. spec. In contexts of a defence policy based on the theory of the effectiveness of a nuclear deterrent. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > defence > [noun] > means of defence > specific defence system > credibility of defence system credibility1958 1958 Times 15 Oct. 13/7 As active deterrence is seen to be beyond the reach even of the super-Powers, its credibility will continue to decline. 1962 Listener 2 Aug. 161/2 Worry about the credibility of massive retaliation so long as America alone has the power to start it has been racking Nato for several years. 1987 D. F. Thompson Polit. Ethics & Public Office i. 34 The very uncertainty on which the defenders of deterrence rely to maintain the credibility of the deterrent tends to undermine its control in an organizational setting. 2006 Foreign Affairs Sept. 11/2 Questions about the credibility of such ‘extended deterrence’ were never fully resolved, but their urgency was lessened..by Washington's decision to bind itself tightly to its NATO partners. 2. An instance, case, or degree of being credible; a credible thing, a piece of credible evidence. ΚΠ 1609 R. Parsons Quiet Reckoning ii. 85 To fill Princes eares with possibilities onely of dangers without some particuler circumstances of probabilities or credibilities, is an officious wounding them vnder pretence of fawning good will. 1630 J. Sharpe Triall Protestant Priuate Spirit i. 26 We haue many, & those forcible reasons , perswasions, and credibilities which may in prudence persuade any Pagan neuer admitted to it. 1663 J. Taylor Serm. Funeral Abp. Armagh 7 If this be not sufficient credibility in a matter of Fact..then we can have no Story credibly transmitted... Then we may be as sure that Christ..is already risen, as all these credibilities can make us. 1737 W. Lee Ess. Value of Leases & Annuities iii. 453 The Dealer in Credibilities can never meet with a Disappointment. ?1790 A. Macdonald Laura I. xv. 206 He [sc. Hume] doubted and disbelieved whatever he thought inconvenient, and only admitted as credibilities such things as pleased him. 1806 Monthly Rev. Dec. 383 Thus the doctrines of Revelation may be said to stamp a credibility on the history of its miraculous introduction. 1853 L. Hunt Relig. of Heart 199 Does it need glosses, commentators, expositors, explainers, investigators of manuscripts, reconcilers of credibilities? 1916 Catholic World Apr. 81 There are excellent credibilities for believing him to have been one of us. 1970 L. S. Champion Evol. Shakespeare's Comedy (1973) ii. 47 They are staged relatively infrequently; and thus armchair critics or readers more easily fall prey to the tendency to seek in the character a credibility and consistency which belie his dramatic purposes and destroy the comic tone. 2004 R. Hoggart Mass Media in Mass Society (2005) viii. 190 They [sc. C. S. Lewis and George Orwell] dealt in credibilities which were not derisory, such as loyalty, affection, neighbourliness and kindness. Compounds credibility gap n. originally U.S. a discrepancy between what is said or promised and what happens or is true; a disinclination to accept (esp. official) statements at face value. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > belief > disbelief, incredulity > [noun] > state of incredulity1430 inconvictedness1664 inconviction1664 inconvincibility1882 incredibility1882 credibility gap1962 1962 Dunkirk (N.Y.) Evening Observer 3 Dec. 1/8 Sen. Kenneth B. Keating..said today the United States must close the ‘credibility gap’ with Russia if the world is to avoid a nuclear war. The credibility gap, Keating said, is the failure to convince Russia that the United States means what it says about defending its interests. 1966 Guardian 28 Dec. 6/1 Official American statements are no longer taken on trust... The phenomenon..is called the ‘credibility gap’. 1967 M. McCarthy in Observer 30 Apr. 12 We do not recognise them, helmeted, in a bomber aiming cans of napalm at a thatched village. We have a credibility gap. 1994 Remnant 15 July 10/2 Vatican legislation is coming to them across a credibility gap which grows larger by the hour. 2011 M. McCombs et al. News & Public Opinion i. iii. 47 The news credibility gaps between Democrats and Republicans are staggering. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.a1572
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