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Credibility vs Reliable - What's the difference?

credibility | reliable |

As nouns the difference between credibility and reliable

is that credibility is reputation impacting one's ability to be believed while reliable is something or someone or dependable.

As an adjective reliable is

suitable]] or fit to be [[rely on|relied on; worthy of dependence or reliance; trustworthy.

credibility

English

Noun

  • Reputation impacting one's ability to be believed.
  • After weeks of blowing smoke, her credibility with me was next to nil.
  • (legal) Believability of statements by a witness, as measured by whether the testimony is probable or improbable when judged by common experience.
  • Synonyms

    * (sense, reputation impacting one's ability to be believed) believability, personal capital

    Coordinate terms

    * cred

    reliable

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Suitable]] or fit to be [[rely on, relied on; worthy of dependence or reliance; trustworthy
  • A reliable witness to the truth of the miracles. -- .
    The best means, and most reliable pledge, of a higher object. -- .
    According to General Livingston's humorous account, his own village of Elizabethtown was not much more reliable , being peopled in those agitated times by unknown, unrecommended strangers, guilty-looking Tories, and very knavish Whigs. --.
  • (signal processing, of a communication protocol) Such that either a sent packet will reach its destination, even if it requires retransmission, or the sender will be told that it didn't
  • Synonyms

    * secure * dependable

    Antonyms

    * unreliable

    Derived terms

    * reliableness * reliably * semireliable

    See also

    * (Reliability)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Something or someone or dependable
  • the old reliables