incredibility

English

Etymology

From Latin incredibilitas, equivalent to incredible +‎ -ity.

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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?
    • 1995 October 24, Walter Goodman, “TELEVISION REVIEW;Who Programmed Mary? Could It Be Satan?”, in The New York Times[1]:
      The repressed-memory therapists in Ms. Bikel's earlier documentaries were light on credentials and heavy on incredibility.

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