credulousness

English

Etymology

credulous +‎ -ness

Noun

credulousness (uncountable)

1. 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, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• “credulousness”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.