Thinking and knowing
Synonyms for credence
The synonym for credence recorded in this bank is acceptance, in the sense "the mental attitude that something is believable and should be accepted as true". Below it sits the sentence that fixes that meaning, the same sentence with the swap made, and the words that only look close.
The synonym for credence
- acceptancenoun, in the sense "the mental attitude that something is believable and should be accepted as true"
One pair, read and signed off by a human before it shipped. The bank records a synonym per sense, so a second one appears here the day credence is audited in a second meaning.
the mental attitude that something is believable and should be accepted as true
He gave credence to the gossip.
The true synonym
acceptance
Same sentence, swapped: He gave acceptance to the gossip.
Close but different
These three are the other tiles the game puts on screen for this sense, and the note above says why the closest of them fails. None is a synonym for credence in the sentence quoted.
- intolerance
- hardball
- dependence
Where credence turns up in the game
credence is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 3, Ridgeline. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in one other puzzle, where the answer is a different word entirely.
The puzzle where credence is the trap
- acceptancenoun, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is adoption, in the sense "the act of accepting with approval", and credence is one of the three tiles that lose.
Play credence
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so credence reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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Closest first: other thinking and knowing words at Ridgeline, then the same tier across the rest of the library.
Why the near miss missed, in the game as well as here
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. credence carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.