credulitynoun [ U ]
uk/krəˈdʒuː.lə.ti/us/krəˈduː.lə.t̬i/also credulousness, formalwillingness to believe that something is real or true, especially when this is unlikely
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Not believing
- are my eyes deceiving me? idiom
- as if! idiom
- authority
- believe
- believe sth when you see it idiom
- denial
- I'll eat my hat idiom
- iconoclastic
- in your dreams! idiom
- incredulous
- is he/she for real? idiom
- joke
- Marines
- salt
- satisfied
- self-deception
- since when idiom
- take sth with a pinch of salt idiom
- tell me another one! idiom
- worship
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Examples from literature
- And now the whole spectacular business was capped by a sensation so dramatic as to strain credulity to its limit.
- But it will need some telling, and perhaps credulity on the reader's part.
- Dazzled and bewildered, the heated senses were become the victims of their own credulity, the mind receiving back its own reactions.
- The subsequent history of the Parker case is a startling example of the credulity of the ordinary jury.
- The young man smiled at her credulity and enthusiasm.