credulousness

English

Etymology

credulous +‎ -ness

Noun

credulousness (uncountable)

The characteristic or state of being credulous; credulity.
- 1911, Ernest Jones, "The Psychopathology of Everyday Life", The American Journal of Psychology, vol. 22 no 4 (Oct), pp. 525-6,
  Credulousness is always more harshly judged than incredulousness, though they are both merely different aspects of the same fundamental failing, namely, lack of true scepticism.

Synonyms

gullibility

References

credulousness in An American Dictionary of the English Language, by Noah Webster, 1828.
credulousness in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
“credulousness” in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.

This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.