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credibility

/ˌkrɛdɪˈbɪlɪti/

B1CEFR level
25/100Rarity: fairly common
TechnicalRegister

Medicine noun

The extent to which a person's statements can reasonably be believed.

A collateral history from the family helped establish the credibility of the reported symptoms.

Similar: believability

Topic: Clinical consultation in Medical English

Law noun

The quality of being believable or trustworthy as a witness.

Repeated inconsistencies destroyed the complainant's credibility in the eyes of the jury.

Similar: believability, trustworthiness

Topic: Evidence & procedure in Legal English

Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.

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