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Definition of Credibility
1. Noun. The quality of being believable or trustworthy.
Generic synonyms: Quality
Specialized synonyms: Authenticity, Genuineness, Legitimacy, Cogency, Rigor, Rigour, Validity, Plausibility, Plausibleness, Cred, Street Cred, Street Credibility
Attributes: Believable, Credible, Incredible, Unbelievable
Derivative terms: Believable, Credible, Credible, Credible, Credible, Credible
Antonyms: Incredibility
Definition of Credibility
1. n. The quality of being credible; credibleness; as, the credibility of facts; the credibility of witnesses.
Definition of Credibility
1. Noun. reputation impacting one's ability to be believed ¹
2. Noun. (legal) Whether or not a witness is being truthful. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Credibility
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Credibility
Literary usage of Credibility
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Lawyers' Reports Annotated by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company (1912)
"The credibility of testimony is a question exclusively for the jury, and we do
not see how it is possible for a juror in considering that question to ..."
2. The General Principles of the Law of Evidence: In Their Application to the by Frank Sumner Rice (1894)
"credibility of Witnesses is for the Jury.—The jury are the exclusive judges of
the degree of credibility to be attached to the testimony; ..."
3. When the Victim Is a Child by Debra Whitcomb (1992)
"A. Testimony Regarding credibility In one area, the courts are nearly in complete
consensus. Prosecution experts are almost universally never permitted to ..."
4. An Introduction to the Critical Study and Knowledge of the Holy Scriptures by Thomas Hartwell Horne (1825)
"1 HE evidences for the credibility of the Old and New Testaments, ... We might
safely rest the credibility of the Scriptures upon those evidences ..."
5. Essays and Reviews Chiefly on Theology, Politics, and Socialism by Orestes Augustus Brownson (1887)
"He who establishes the credibility of the Scriptures by an infallible body, and
then establishes the infallibility of the body from the credibility of the ..."
6. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1903)
"... impeach his credibility as a witness, and he had been cross-examined as to
its contents, it is difficult to see why it was introduced by the plaintiff ..."
7. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1903)
"no affidavits are adduced as to the character and credibility of the witnesses
whose newly discovered evidence is relied upon. (Syllabus by the Court. ..."
8. Principles of the Criminal Law: A Concise Exposition of the Nature of Crime by Seymour Frederick Harris, Frederic Philip Tomlinson (1881)
"credibility OF WITNESSES. the credibility " ' ' » As we have already seen, ...
The credibility of a witness is compounded of his knowledge of the facts he ..."
9. Lawyers' Reports Annotated by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company (1912)
"The credibility of testimony is a question exclusively for the jury, and we do
not see how it is possible for a juror in considering that question to ..."
10. The General Principles of the Law of Evidence: In Their Application to the by Frank Sumner Rice (1894)
"credibility of Witnesses is for the Jury.—The jury are the exclusive judges of
the degree of credibility to be attached to the testimony; ..."
11. When the Victim Is a Child by Debra Whitcomb (1992)
"A. Testimony Regarding credibility In one area, the courts are nearly in complete
consensus. Prosecution experts are almost universally never permitted to ..."
12. An Introduction to the Critical Study and Knowledge of the Holy Scriptures by Thomas Hartwell Horne (1825)
"1 HE evidences for the credibility of the Old and New Testaments, ... We might
safely rest the credibility of the Scriptures upon those evidences ..."
13. Essays and Reviews Chiefly on Theology, Politics, and Socialism by Orestes Augustus Brownson (1887)
"He who establishes the credibility of the Scriptures by an infallible body, and
then establishes the infallibility of the body from the credibility of the ..."
14. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1903)
"... impeach his credibility as a witness, and he had been cross-examined as to
its contents, it is difficult to see why it was introduced by the plaintiff ..."
15. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1903)
"no affidavits are adduced as to the character and credibility of the witnesses
whose newly discovered evidence is relied upon. (Syllabus by the Court. ..."
16. Principles of the Criminal Law: A Concise Exposition of the Nature of Crime by Seymour Frederick Harris, Frederic Philip Tomlinson (1881)
"credibility OF WITNESSES. the credibility " ' ' » As we have already seen, ...
The credibility of a witness is compounded of his knowledge of the facts he ..."
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