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English
Etymology
credulous + -ness
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Noun
credulousness (uncountable)
- The characteristic or state of being credulous; credulity
- Synonyms: credulosity (uncommon), credulity, gullibility
1911 Oct, Ernest Jones, “The Psychopathology of Everyday Life”, in The American Journal of Psychology, volume 22, number 4, pages 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.
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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.