different between credibility vs creed

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French crédibilité, from Medieval Latin credibilitas, from Latin credibilis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k??d.?.?b?.??.ti/

Noun

credibility (countable and uncountable, plural credibilities)

1. Reputation impacting one's ability to be believed.

   After weeks of blowing smoke, her credibility with me was next to nil.

2. (law) Believability of statements by a witness, as measured by whether the testimony is probable or improbable when judged by common experience.

Synonyms

• (reputation impacting one's ability to be believed): believability, personal capital

Coordinate terms

• cred

Related terms

• credence
• credible
• credit

Translations

English

Etymology

From Old English creda, crede, credo, from Latin cr?d? (“I believe”), from Proto-Italic *krezd?, from Proto-Indo-European *?red d?eh?- (“to place one's heart, i.e., to trust, believe”), a compound phrase of the oblique case form of *??r (“heart”). Creed is cognate with Old Irish cretim (“to believe”), Sanskrit ?????????? (?ráddadh?ti, “to have faith or faithfulness, to have belief or confidence, believe”). Doublet of shraddha.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /k?i?d/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /k?id/
• Rhymes: -i?d

Noun

creed (plural creeds)

1. That which is believed; accepted doctrine, especially religious doctrine; a particular set of beliefs; any summary of principles or opinions professed or adhered to.
2. (specifically, religion) A reading or statement of belief that summarizes the faith it represents; a confession of faith for public use, especially one which is brief and comprehensive.
3. (rare) The fact of believing; belief, faith.

Hyponyms

• Apostles' Creed
• Athanasian Creed
• Nicene Creed

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

Verb

creed (third-person singular simple present creeds, present participle creeding, simple past and past participle creeded)

1. (transitive, intransitive, obsolete, only survives in "creeded") To believe; to credit.
2. (intransitive) To provide with a creed.

Translations

References

• creed in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• creed in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Further reading

• creed on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• creed (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• ceder, cered, rec'ed

Spanish

Verb

creed

1. (Spain) Informal second-person plural (vosotros or vosotras) affirmative imperative form of creer.