credence
KREED-unsnounMeaning belief or acceptance that something is true
Memory hook CRED-ence: give it CREDIT, believe it. Nobody believed Ivy’s story about a fox family in the park, until she showed her photos. The pictures lend credence to her story.
Nobody gave much credence to the rumor that school would close for a month.
In context At first the scientists gave little credence to the farmer’s report of a strange new bird, but his clear photographs soon changed their minds.
Similar belief, acceptance, trust, faith
Opposite disbelief, doubt, skepticism
From Latin credentia, from credere, “to believe.”