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BELIEVABILITY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does believability mean?
• BELIEVABILITY (noun)
The noun BELIEVABILITY has 1 sense:
1. the quality of being believable or trustworthy
Familiarity information: BELIEVABILITY used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The quality of being believable or trustworthy
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Synonyms:
believability; credibility; credibleness
Hypernyms ("believability" 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 "believability"):
authenticity; genuineness; legitimacy (undisputed credibility)
cogency; rigor; rigour; validity (the quality of being valid and rigorous)
plausibility; plausibleness (apparent validity)
cred; street cred; street credibility (credibility among young fashionable urban individuals)
Derivation:
believable (capable of being believed)
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