incredibility
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English
Etymology
From Latin incredibilitas, equivalent to incredible + -ity.
Pronunciation
Noun
incredibility (countable and uncountable, plural incredibilities)
- The quality of being incredible; incredibleness.
- That which is incredible.
- 1857, The British Quarterly Review, volume 26, page 111:
- But, as to its contents, who would believe such incredibilities as miracles, inspirations, or prophecies, or that God would command the perpetration of crimes like the destruction of the Canaanites?
- 1995 October 24, Walter Goodman, “TELEVISION REVIEW;Who Programmed Mary? Could It Be Satan?”, in The New York Times:
- The repressed-memory therapists in Ms. Bikel's earlier documentaries were light on credentials and heavy on incredibility.
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References
- “incredibility”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.