Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The quality of being incredible or beyond belief.
  • noun That which is incredible.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun The quality or state of being incredible; incredibleness.
  • noun That which is incredible.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun The quality of being incredible; incredibleness.
  • noun That which is incredible.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun the quality of being incredible

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Examples

  • The feeling of incredibility is a feeling of stimulation, excitation, arousal.

    Archive 2010-01-01 Hal Duncan 2010

  • The feeling of incredibility is a feeling of stimulation, excitation, arousal.

    Modality and Hamlet Hal Duncan 2010

  • Arguably, the other quirks are seldom wholly dewarped either, because we seldom want them to be; the incredibility is part of the fun, the drama.

    Archive 2010-01-01 Hal Duncan 2010

  • Arguably, the other quirks are seldom wholly dewarped either, because we seldom want them to be; the incredibility is part of the fun, the drama.

    Modality and Hamlet Hal Duncan 2010

  • Does this mean, then, that incredibility is actually more important to SF than credibility?

    Archive 2006-07-01 Hal Duncan 2006

  • Does this mean, then, that incredibility is actually more important to SF than credibility?

    Strange Fiction 7 Hal Duncan 2006

  • It seems to me that the focus on originality and inventiveness in SF, on finding a new angle on the old tropes is, in part, a tacit recognition that conventionality dissipates the strangeness effect, that to sustain the sense of "incredibility" requires a (constant) reinvention of those tropes in order to defamiliarise them.

    Strange Fiction 8 Hal Duncan 2006

  • He is not getting in their way as they run towards the cliff of incredibility.

    Matthew Yglesias » Zero 2009

  • Let me take just one example of the incredibility low standard of economic immigration clichés.

    A Childish Question About Immigration, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

  • The level of public ignorance on this issue is incredibility embarrassing considering Russian-like people living in Canada, France, Italy, Germany, Spain, Great Britain, Sweden, etc. are watching it.

    Specter faces angry crowd at town hall meeting 2009

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