gullibility

1. 1.

   tendency to believe too readily and therefore to be easily deceived

   Synonymscredulousness

   Broadernaivete

Other forms of gullibility

plural

gullibilities·

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 gullibility

What does gullibility mean?

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

How many syllables are in gullibility?

gullibility has 5 syllables: gul-li-bil-i-ty. The stress falls on "bil". In IPA it is /ˌɡʌləˈbɪlɪti/.

What is another word for gullibility?

Close synonyms include credulousness. 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 gullibility a common word?

gullibility 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.

What rhymes with gullibility?

48 words rhyme with gullibility. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.