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say it: KREE-duhns
credence is a noun meaning "the mental attitude that something is believable and should be accepted as true". It is pronounced /ˈkɹidəns/ — KREE-duhns. It carries 2 recorded senses.
the mental attitude that something is believable and should be accepted as true
“he gave credence to the gossip”
“acceptance of Newtonian mechanics was unquestioned for 200 years”
a kind of sideboard or buffet
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for credence come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.