gullibility

English

Etymology

From gullible +‎ -ity.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡʌlɪbɪlɪti/, /ˈɡʌləbɪləti/

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Noun

gullibility (countable and uncountable, plural gullibilities)

1. The quality of readily believing information, truthful or otherwise, usually to an absurd extent.
   • 2017 February 20, Paul Mason, “Climate scepticism is a far-right badge of honour – even in sweltering Australia”, in the Guardian‎^[1]:

     What distinguishes the core of the rightwing populist electorate is its gullibility to idiocy-promoting rhetoric against climate science.

Synonyms

• credulity

Related terms

• gull
• gullible
• gullibly

 

Translations

quality of being easily deceived

• Arabic: سَذَاجَة f (saḏāja)
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• Bulgarian: доверчивост (bg) (doverčivost), лековерие (bg) n (lekoverie)
• Catalan: credulitat f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 易受骗

• Czech: důvěřivost (cs) f
• Dutch: lichtgelovigheid f
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• Finnish: herkkäuskoisuus
• French: crédulité (fr) f
• Galician: credulidade (gl) f
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• German: Leichtgläubigkeit (de) f
• Greek: ευπιστία (el) f (efpistía), αφέλεια (el) f (aféleia)
• Hebrew: תמימות (he) f (tmimút)
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• Latin: crēdulitās f
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• Macedonian: лековерност (mk) f (lekovernost)
• Maori: whakapono tūpatokore
• Polish: naiwność, łatwowierność f
• Portuguese: credulidade (pt) f
• Russian: дове́рчивость (ru) f (dovérčivostʹ), простоду́шие (ru) n (prostodúšije), наи́вность (ru) f (naívnostʹ)
• Serbo-Croatian: lakovjernost f
• Spanish: credulidad (es) f, tragaderas f pl
• Swedish: godtrbogenhet
• Tagalog: kamapaniwalain
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• Vietnamese: tính cả tin