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Trustworthiness vs Credibility - What's the difference?

trustworthiness | credibility |

As nouns the difference between trustworthiness and credibility

is that trustworthiness is the state or quality of being trustworthy or reliable while credibility is reputation impacting one's ability to be believed.

trustworthiness

English

Noun

(wikipedia trustworthiness) (-)
  • The state or quality of being trustworthy or reliable.

    • 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

    Related terms

    * credence * credible * credit

    Coordinate terms

    * cred