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
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The feeling of incredibility is a feeling of stimulation, excitation, arousal.
Archive 2010-01-01 Hal Duncan 2010
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The feeling of incredibility is a feeling of stimulation, excitation, arousal.
Modality and Hamlet Hal Duncan 2010
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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
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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
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Does this mean, then, that incredibility is actually more important to SF than credibility?
Archive 2006-07-01 Hal Duncan 2006
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Does this mean, then, that incredibility is actually more important to SF than credibility?
Strange Fiction 7 Hal Duncan 2006
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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
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He is not getting in their way as they run towards the cliff of incredibility.
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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
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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.
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