trustworthiness


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trust·wor·thy

 (trŭst′wûr′thē)
adj. trust·wor·thi·er, trust·wor·thi·est
Warranting trust; reliable. See Synonyms at reliable.

trust′wor′thi·ly adv.
trust′wor′thi·ness n.
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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Noun1.trustworthiness - the trait of deserving trust and confidencetrustworthiness - the trait of deserving trust and confidence
trait - a distinguishing feature of your personal nature
creditworthiness - trustworthiness with money as based on a person's credit history; a general qualification for borrowing
responsibleness, responsibility - a form of trustworthiness; the trait of being answerable to someone for something or being responsible for one's conduct; "he holds a position of great responsibility"
untrustiness, untrustworthiness - the trait of not deserving trust or confidence
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Translations
جَدارَةُ الثِّقَه
důvěryhodnost
pålidelighed
áreiîanleiki; trúmennska
güvenilirlik

trustworthiness

[ˈtrʌstˌwɜːðɪnɪs] N [of person] → formalidad f; [of source, news] → carácter m fidedigno, fiabilidad f; [of statistics etc] → fiabilidad f, exactitud f
Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

trustworthiness

n (of person)Vertrauenswürdigkeit f; (of statement, account)Glaubhaftigkeit f, → Glaubwürdigkeit f
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trustworthiness

[ˈtrʌstˌwɜːðɪnɪs] n (of person) → affidabilità f inv; (of statement) → attendibilità f inv
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trust

(trast) verb
1. to have confidence or faith; to believe. She trusted (in) him.
2. to give (something to someone), believing that it will be used well and responsibly. I can't trust him with my car; I can't trust my car to him.
3. to hope or be confident (that). I trust (that) you had / will have a good journey.
noun
1. belief or confidence in the power, reality, truth, goodness etc of a person or thing. The firm has a great deal of trust in your ability; trust in God.
2. charge or care; responsibility. The child was placed in my trust.
3. a task etc given to a person by someone who believes that they will do it, look after it etc well. He holds a position of trust in the firm.
4. arrangement(s) by which something (eg money) is given to a person to use in a particular way, or to keep until a particular time. The money was to be held in trust for his children; (also adjective) a trust fund
5. a group of business firms working together. The companies formed a trust.
ˌtrusˈtee noun
a person who keeps and takes care of something (especially money or property) for some one else.
ˈtrustworthy adjective
(negative untrustworthy) worthy of trust. Is your friend trustworthy?
ˈtrustworthiness noun
ˈtrusty adjective
able to be trusted or depended on. trusty sword; a trusty friend.
ˈtrustily adverb
ˈtrustiness noun
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References in classic literature ?
"The chances are small that your tale will be believed until after you have proven your trustworthiness and won friends among the higher nobles of the court.
I begin to get fidgety and irritable; I find myself secretly doubting the trustworthiness of the guide.
The poor child had become altogether unbelieving as to the trustworthiness of that Key which had made the ambition and the labor of her husband's life.
Muda Saffir knew perfectly well that Bududreen had but diplomatically expressed a fear as to his own royal trustworthiness, but it did not anger him, since the charge was not a direct one; but what he did not know was of the heavy chest and Bududreen's desire to win the price of the girl and yet be able to save for himself a chance at the far greater fortune which he knew lay beneath that heavy oaken lid.
To begin with the trustworthiness of introspection.
He resembled a pilot, which to a seaman is trustworthiness personified.
Japan's Cabinet has insisted that the delisting, approved on August 2, was purely due to the need to reconsider South Korea's trustworthiness as a security partner after an allegation that South Korea re-exports some strategic materials to North Korea.
Jeremy Corbyn will attack Boris Johnson's trustworthiness as he fires the opening shots of a general election campaign with a ballot expected this autumn.
It investigates the nature and conditions of public trust and aims to provide a framework that can be used to gauge the trustworthiness of policy related expert opinion.
The findings are significant because most research has suggested that source credibility is a combination of trustworthiness and expertise.
To address this, Fujitsu Laboratories has developed technology based on a Decentralized Identification (DID) utilizing blockchain that analyzes the risk of falsification and the trustworthiness of the other party's personal credentials when a user conducts a transaction online.