gullibility

Noun

Meaning

tendency to believe too readily and therefore to be easily deceived

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

credulity credulousness simplicity purity ignorance innocence openness sincerity absurdity naturalness frankness dullness naivete dumbness naivety
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Antonyms

bluff experience enlightenment epiphany chicane corruption
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Hypernyms

naivete naivety naiveness

Related terms

gull gullible gullibly

Examples

For every credibility gap there is a gullibility gap. Richard Cobden

Could people be trained to be less gullible? Or are you as stuck with gullibility as you are with skin colour? Keith Henson

Aside from an unwholesome taste for string quartets, and a certain gullibility about predigested sociology, she passed the McGee test with about a B+. Hell, an A-. Maybe somebody had given her the Vance Packard books. John D. MacDonald

...instead it seems that business - like weight loss - is a subject wherein hope and fear inspire limitless gullibility. Paul Krugman

Innocence can be redefined and called stupidity. Honesty can be called gullibility. Candor becomes lack of common sense. Interest in your work can be called cowardice. Generosity can be called soft-headedness, and observe the former is disturbing. Abraham Maslow

Quackery has no friend like gullibility. Traditional Proverb

Close letter words and terms

Gullette gulley gullgubber gullible gullible person gullibleness