Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Credibility; capability of being believed.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The state or quality of being
believable .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the quality of being believable or trustworthy
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Examples
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Yet there is one area where the decrease in believability was more bipartisan.
Who you gonna believe? Survey says: Not the news media « A Progressive on the Prairie 2009
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Yet there is one area where the decrease in believability was more bipartisan.
A Progressive on the Prairie » Who you gonna believe? Survey says: Not the news media » Print 2009
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Part of that believability is also that Batman is disturbed.
Archive 2008-07-01 2008
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A suspension of believability is required by the readers to follow this premise and others in the books.
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I think the word we're looking for here is "believability" and not "realism".
Will Iron Man’s Realism Clash with The Avengers Universe? | /Film 2008
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What if you don't really care about "believability"?
Film and Literature 2007
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Their explanations, and how conveniently they come together so far from the ship, just stretched by "believability" too far.
Review: The Red Wolf Conspiracy by Robert V.S. Redick Jeff C 2009
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Some might argue that "believability" isn't exactly a priority that needed to be so high in a movie about a man who dresses like a bat to fight evil clowns.
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You have a number of different characters, all very interesting and fleshed out to believability, meaning they are flawed.
Carol Hoenig: One Self-Published Author Gives a Story of War a Soul 2009
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Their explanations, and how conveniently they come together so far from the ship, just stretched by "believability" too far.
Archive 2009-04-01 Jeff C 2009
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