incredibility

English

Etymology

From Latin incredibilitas.

Pronunciation

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Noun

incredibility (countable and uncountable, plural incredibilities)

1. The quality of being incredible; incredibleness.
2. 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?

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• French: ^{(please verify)} incrédibilité (fr) f
• Italian: ^{(please verify)} incredibilità f
• Macedonian: ^{(please verify)} неверојатност f (neverojatnost)
• Manx: ^{(please verify)} anchredjallaght f, ^{(please verify)} neuchredjallaght f
• Spanish: ^{(please verify)} inverosimilitud f

References

• “incredibility”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.