credulousness

1. 1.

   tendency to believe too readily and therefore to be easily deceived

   Synonymsgullibility

   Broadernaivete

Other forms of credulousness

plural

credulousnesses·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about credulousness

What does credulousness mean?

credulousness means "tendency to believe too readily and therefore to be easily deceived".

How many syllables are in credulousness?

credulousness has 4 syllables: cre-du-lou-sness. The stress falls on "du".

What is another word for credulousness?

Close synonyms include gullibility. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is credulousness a common word?

credulousness is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.