Credential vs Creditable - What's the difference?
credential | creditable |
of, pertaining to or entitling to credit or authority
* Camden
documentary evidence that a person has certain status or privileges
to furnish with
* {{quote-book, 1997, Paul Thomas Hill et al., Reinventing Public Education
, passage=School superintendents, principals, and teachers are currently credentialed only by the state.}}
* {{quote-news, year=2009, date=March 7, author=By Patrick Walters, title=Rudd orders worldwide push for UN seat, work=Herald Sun
, passage=The newly credentialled ambassador to the Holy See is already in the PM's good books.}}
Credible or believable.
* 1847 , Benjamin Franklin Hall, The Land Owner's Manual
* 1996 , Giannino Malossi,Latin Lover: The Passionate South
That brings credit or honour; respectable.
That can be assigned; assignable.
As adjectives the difference between credential and creditable
is that credential is of, pertaining to or entitling to credit or authority while creditable is credible or believable.As a noun credential
is documentary evidence that a person has certain status or privileges.As a verb credential
is to furnish with.credential
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- their credential letters on both sides
Noun
(wikipedia credential) (en noun)Verb
citation
citation
See also
* (Credentialing)Anagrams
*creditable
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- Before receiving his testimony, the officer is required to ascertain from his own knowledge or by a creditable witness that he is a subscribing witness to the deed.
- A more creditable rumour concerned Valentino's hallmark killer glance ...