gullibility

gullibility

English

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:

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

Synonyms

• credulity

Related terms

• to gull
• gullible
• gullibly

Translations

quality of being easily deceived

Bulgarian: доверчивост (bg) (doverčivost) Catalan: credulitat f Chinese: Mandarin: 易受骗 Czech: důvěřivost f Dutch: lichtgelovigheid f Finnish: herkkäuskoisuus German: Leichtgläubigkeit (de) f Greek: ευπιστία (el) f (efpistía), αφέλεια (el) f (aféleia)

Latin: crēdulitās f 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