incredibility
- noun
- /ɪnˈkrɛdəˌbɪlɪti/
- The incredibility of the magician's tricks left the audience speechless.
Examples
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But her injuries are comparatively minor, when you consider the incredibility of her being alive at all.
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But the superficiality and incredibility of his ethical doctrine do lead to our professors' view that morality has no foundation.
Academic text (1991) -
Everyone was shocked by the incredibility of the story he told about surviving against all odds.
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The scientist presented evidence so surprising that the incredibility of her findings sparked a heated debate.
Synonyms
A situation when a story or excuse does not seem true
The state of being impossible to imagine or believe
A quality that makes something seem very surprising or hard to believe
The quality of being impossible to accept as true
Antonyms
How Believable
Surface Forms
Morphology
incredibility = incredible (semi-transparent) = in + cred + ible + ity
The noun is a regular and easily interpretable state/quality formation from the adjective 'incredible'.
Etymology
Incredibility comes from Latin parts in- ('not') and credere ('to believe'), and the cred part is also in the everyday word credit, which is about trust or belief. So, incredibility is the state of being 'not believable' or hard to accept as true.