What is another word for incredibility?

Pronunciation: [ɪnkɹˌɛdɪbˈɪlɪti] (IPA)

Incredibility is the state or quality of being unbelievable or improbable. There are several synonyms for this word that can be used to describe situations that seem highly unlikely. One such synonym is implausibility, which suggests that something is unlikely to be true or difficult to believe. Another synonym for incredibility is improbability, which implies that something is highly unlikely or improbable. Unbelievability is another synonym that conveys the sense that something seems too far-fetched to be true. Finally, incredulity is a synonym that refers to a feeling of disbelief or skepticism that often accompanies incredibility.

What are the hypernyms for Incredibility?

A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.

What are the hyponyms for Incredibility?

Hyponyms are more specific words categorized under a broader term, known as a hypernym.
  • hyponyms for incredibility (as nouns)

What are the opposite words for incredibility?

Incredibility means something that is hard to believe or seemingly untrue. It has numerous opposite words, including believability, plausibility, credibleness, trustworthiness, and accountability. Believability refers to something that is likely to be true or convincing. Plausibility refers to something that can be believed as it appears to be true. Credibleness refers to the ability to convince others of the truth. Trustworthiness implies reliability, honesty, and consistency, while accountability refers to the responsibility of providing an explanation or justification for one's actions or decisions. Thus, these antonyms for incredibility represent the exact opposite of it, and speakers can use any of these words to convey a more trustworthy, believable or reliable message.

What are the antonyms for Incredibility?

Usage examples for Incredibility

Among people of thoughtfulness there was a kind of dazed incredibility that this war would really happen, and at the back of this unbelief a tragic foreboding and a kind of shame-a foreboding that secret forces were at work for war, utterly beyond the control of European democracies who desired to live in peace, and a shame that civilization itself, all the ideals and intellectual activities and democratic progress of modern Europe, would be thrust back into the primitive barbarities of war, with its wholesale, senseless slaughter, its bayonet slashings and disembowellings-"heroic charges" as they are called by the journalists-and its gospel of hatred.
"The Soul of the War"
Philip Gibbs
But scarcely any other event in that territory seems more highly charged with the elements of incredibility than the Salem historian's perception that little John Stiles was the bona fide author of the pranks played at William Morse's house.
"Witchcraft of New England Explained by Modern Spiritualism"
Allen Putnam
For if it were not true, no person could possibly have ventured to imagine it, and its incredibility constitutes the great proof that it ought to be believed.
"A Philosophical Dictionary, Volume 5 (of 10) From "The Works of Voltaire - A Contemporary Version""
François-Marie Arouet (AKA Voltaire) Commentator: John Morley Tobias Smollett H.G. Leigh

Famous quotes with Incredibility

  • A state of princes; a skulk of friars; a skulk of thieves; an observance of hermits; a lying of pardoners; a subtiltie of serjeants; an untruth of sompners; a multiplying of husbands; an incredibility of cuckolds; a safeguard of porters; a stalk of foresters; a blast of hunters; a draught of butlers; a temperance of cooks; a melody of harpers; a poverty of pipers; a drunkenship of coblers; a disguising of taylors; a wandering of tinkers; a malepertness of pedlars; a fighting of beggars; a rayful, (that is, a netful) of knaves; a blush of boys; a bevy of ladies; a nonpatience of wives; a gagle of women; a gagle of geese; a superfluity of nuns; and a herd of harlots. Similar terms were applied to inanimate things, as a caste of bread, a cluster of grapes, a cluster of nuts, &c.
    Joseph Strutt
  • Inconceivable events and conditions form a class apart from all other story elements, and cannot be made convincing by any mere process of casual narration. They have the handicap of incredibility to overcome; and this can be accomplished only through a careful realism in every phase of the story, plus a gradual atmospheric or emotional build-up of the utmost subtlety. The emphasis, too, must be kept right—hovering always over It must be remembered that any violation of what we know as natural law is a far more tremendous thing than any other event or feeling which could possibly affect a human being. Therefore in a story dealing with such a thing we cannot expect to create any sense of life or illusion of reality if we treat the wonder casually and have the characters moving about under ordinary motivations. The characters, though they must be natural, should be subordinated to the central marvel around which they are grouped. The true "hero" of a marvel tale is not any human being, but simply a Over and above everything else should tower the stark, outrageous monstrousness of the one chosen departure from Nature. The characters should react to it as real people would react to such a thing if it were suddenly to confront them in daily life; displaying the almost soul-shattering amazement which anyone would naturally display instead of the mild, tame, quickly-passed-over emotions prescribed by cheap popular convention. Even when the wonder is one to which the characters are assumed to be used, the sense of awe, marvel, and strangeness which the reader would feel in the presence of such a thing must somehow be suggested by the author. . . . Atmosphere, not action, is the thing to cultivate in the wonder story. We cannot put stress on the bare events, since the unnatural extravagance of these events makes them sound hollow and absurd when thrown into too high relief. Such events, even when theoretically possible or conceivable in the future, have no counterpart or basis in existing life and human experience, hence can never form the groundwork of an adult tale. All that a marvel story can ever be, in a serious way, is a The moment it tries to be anything else it becomes cheap, puerile, and unconvincing. Therefore a fantastic author should see that his prime emphasis goes into subtle suggestion—the imperceptible hints and touches of selective and associative detail which express shadings of moods and build up a vague illusion of the strange reality of the unreal—instead of into bald catalogues of incredible happenings which can have no substance or meaning apart from a sustaining cloud of colour and mood-symbolism. A serious adult story must be true to something in life. Since marvel tales cannot be true to the of life, they must shift their emphasis toward something to which they be true; namely, certain wistful or restless of the human spirit, wherein it seeks to weave gossamer ladders of escape from the galling tyranny of time, space, and natural laws.
    H. P. Lovecraft

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