Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Credulity; readiness to believe without sufficient evidence; gullibility.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Readiness to believe on slight evidence; credulity.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The characteristic or state of being
credulous ;credulity .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun tendency to believe too readily and therefore to be easily deceived
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Examples
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This may be because the credulousness that goes hand in hand with little experience allows one to fall in love merely with appearances, and winter is beautiful.
The Fire We Tend Against Winter Mark Helprin 2011
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This just betrays an absurd credulousness with respect to how the Clintons operate in political communication.
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As we know, this didn't stop the Usual Suspects from running with it, whether out of credulousness or mendacity.
Archive 2009-01-01 2009
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But it has a goofy, appealing credulousness to it; I always love Fraser, Josh Hutcherson is neither good nor bad as his young nephew, and Icelandic actress Anita Briem — of “The Tudors” – is fine in every sense of the world as the hot Icelandic tour guide.
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With varying amounts of credulousness, other outlets ran with it as well, including U.S.
Want Press? Repeat: ‘Green,’ ‘Sex,’ ‘Cancer,’ ‘Secret,’ ‘Fat’ | Disinformation 2008
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And without a healthy flow of facts and evidence, debate on this vital issue has become polluted with credulousness.
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The current lackluster debate allows myths and credulousness to dominate the argument.
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But it has a goofy, appealing credulousness to it; I always love Fraser, Josh Hutcherson is neither good nor bad as his young nephew, and Icelandic actress Anita Briem (of "The Tudors") is fine in every sense of the world as the hot Icelandic tour guide.
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And without a healthy flow of facts and evidence, debate on this vital issue has become polluted with credulousness.
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The current lackluster debate allows myths and credulousness to dominate the argument.
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