credulitiveness

English

Etymology

From credulitive, (a nonce for credulous that satirizes the naming conventions of phrenology), +‎ -ness.

Noun

credulitiveness (uncountable)

1. Credulity.
   • 1824, John Macculloch, The Highlands and Western Isles of Scotland, page 64:

     A certain quantity of belief is a want of the human mind. Perhaps there is an Organ of Credulity, or Credulitivenes , which requires food.

   • 1826, J.C. Tomlinson, “Phrenology”, in The Pamphleteer, volume 26, number 52:

     In the popular discussion of it, there is something highly amusing, and it often applies to the character of individuals with peculiar fitness: but then it is sneered at by the witty, and confuted by the wise; and seriously to declare in its favor, is equivalent to a display of the full development of the organ of credulitiveness.