crediblenessn.
/ˈkrɛdᵻblnəs/, U.S. /ˈkrɛdəbəlnəs/ = credibility n. 1.
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the mind > mental capacity > belief > belief, trust, confidence > credibility > [noun]
credencec1450
credit1552
credibilitya1572
credibleness1595
creditableness1660
believablenessa1680
creditability1808
faithworthiness1828
tenability1845
tenableness1849
believability1865
cred1982
1595 T. North tr. Plutarch Liues (new ed.) 2 If..they..haue no manner of conformity with any crediblenes of matter.
a1691 R. Boyle Wks. (1772) I. 435 The credibleness of a good part of these narratives has been confirmed.
1696 tr. J. Dumont New Voy. Levant 73 The credibleness of this Relation.
1811 F. Hargrave Jurisconsult Exercitations II. 306 The framers..had apparently laboured to reduce the horrid imputations within the boundary of credibleness, as far as might be consistently with adopting them as grounds of impeachment.
1895 Chautauquan Sept. 694/1 There are things which in their own nature are bearable, and love finds that the bearableness of evils extends very far—the credibleness, the hopeableness, the endurableness of things.
1917 Eccles. Rev. May 487 If we now again reproduce the text, but according to the grammatically licit translation suggested, we shall be struck both by the credibleness of the miracle.
1997 Australian (Nexis) 27 Mar. 1 The Wannyi, with the exception of two unrepresentative people whose status as claimants was never established with any credibleness to me, eventually signed up for the project.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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