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means A measure of how likely you are to repay borrowed money, calculated from your financial history.

from A straightforward compound: 'credit,' from Latin creditum/credere meaning 'to believe' or 'to trust,' plus 'worthiness,' from Old English weorþ, meaning value or merit. So the word literally spells out its own logic — are you worth being trusted? 'Credit' entered English in the 1500s already carrying its financial sense of trust extended on a promise of repayment, and 'creditworthiness' emerged later as institutions needed a tidy noun for the thing they were formally assessing: not your character exactly, but a bureaucratic stand-in for it.