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Synonyms for credulity
krəˈdu lɪ ti, -ˈdyu-creduli·ty
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credulitynoun
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incredulitycredulitynoun
Antonyms:
incredulity
English Synonyms and Antonyms
credulity
Fanaticism is extravagant or even frenzied zeal; bigotry is obstinate and unreasoning attachment to a cause or creed; fanaticism and bigotry usually include intolerance, which is unwillingness to tolerate beliefs or opinions contrary to one's own; superstition is ignorant and irrational religious belief. Credulity is not distinctively religious, but is a general readiness to believe without sufficient evidence, with a proneness to accept the marvellous. Bigotry is narrow, fanaticism is fierce, superstition is ignorant, credulity is weak, intolerance is severe. Bigotry has not the capacity to reason fairly, fanaticism has not the patience, superstition has not the knowledge and mental discipline, intolerance has not the disposition. Bigotry, fanaticism, and superstition are perversions of the religious sentiment; credulity and intolerance often accompany skepticism or atheism.
Synonyms:
bigotry, fanaticism, intolerance, superstitionAntonyms:
cynicism, free-thinking, indifference, latitudinarianism
Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms
credulity
Synonyms:
gullibility, simplicity, acceptativeness, openmouthednessAntonyms:
incredulity, scepticism, suspiciousness, shrewdness
Princeton's WordNet
credulitynoun
tendency to believe readily
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Dictionary of English Synonymes
credulitynoun
Synonyms:
easiness of belief, readiness to believe (on slight evidence)
Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
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#10612 | simplicity | |
#22209 | intolerance | |
#28924 | superstition | |
#33837 | bigotry | |
#56878 | fanaticism | |
#93458 | credulity | |
#117103 | gullibility |
How to use credulity in a sentence?
A little credulity helps one on through life very smoothly.
Credulity is the man's weakness, but the child's strength.
Our credulity is greatest concerning the things we know least about. And since we know least about ourselves, we are ready to believe all that is said about us. Hence the mysterious power of both flattery and calumny.
When the only American citizen President Trump singles out for China's investigation is his political opponent in the midst of the Democratic nomination process, it strains credulity to suggest that it is anything other than politically motivated, by all appearances, the president's brazen and unprecedented appeal to China and to Ukraine to investigate Joe Biden is wrong and appalling.
There are new words now that excuse everybody. Give me the good old days of heroes and villains. the people you can bravo or hiss. There was a truth to them that all the slick credulity of today cannot touch.
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