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PRONUNCIATION OF CREDULOUSNESS

credulousness  [ˈkredʒʊləsnəs] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF CREDULOUSNESS

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Credulousness is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES CREDULOUSNESS MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of credulousness in the English dictionary

The definition of credulousness in the dictionary is overwillingness to believe on the basis of little evidence; gullibility.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH CREDULOUSNESS


bibulousness
ˈbɪbjʊləsnəs
crapulousness
ˈkræpjʊləsnəs
emulousness
ˈɛmjʊləsnəs
fabulousness
ˈfæbjʊləsnəs
flawlessness
ˈflɔːləsnəs
heedlessness
ˈhiːdləsnəs
incredulousness
ɪnˈkrɛdjʊləsnəs
jealousness
ˈdʒɛləsnəs
meaninglessness
ˈmiːnɪŋləsnəs
miraculousness
mɪˈrækjʊləsnəs
nebulousness
ˈnɛbjʊləsnəs
patulousness
ˈpætjʊləsnəs
pendulousness
ˈpɛndjʊləsnəs
populousness
ˈpɒpjʊləsnəs
querulousness
ˈkwɛrjʊləsnəs
scrofulousness
ˈskrɒfjʊləsnəs
sedulousness
ˈsɛdjʊləsnəs
statelessness
ˈsteɪtləsnəs
stridulousness
ˈstrɪdjʊləsnəs
tremulousness
ˈtrɛmjʊləsnəs

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE CREDULOUSNESS

credit titles
credit transfer
credit union
credit-crunched
credit-reference agency
creditability
creditable
creditableness
creditably
creditless
creditor
creditor nation
credits
creditworthiness
creditworthy
credo
credulity
credulous
credulously
cree

WORDS THAT END LIKE CREDULOUSNESS

biliousness
business
callousness
carelessness
consciousness
deliciousness
deviousness
helplessness
hilariousness
homelessness
hopelessness
lawlessness
nervousness
obviousness
preciousness
restlessness
ridiculousness
righteousness
seriousness
unconsciousness
viciousness

Synonyms and antonyms of credulousness in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «credulousness» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF CREDULOUSNESS

Find out the translation of credulousness to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of credulousness from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «credulousness» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

轻信
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

credulidad
570 millions of speakers

English

credulousness
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

credulousness
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

السذاجة
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

credulousness
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

credulidade
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

credulousness
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

crédulité
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Kepercayaan
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Leichtgläubigkeit
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

軽信
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

credulousness
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Kepercayaan
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

credulousness
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

credulousness
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

विश्वासार्हता
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Credulousness
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

credulità
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

credulousness
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

credulousness
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

naivitatea
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

credulousness
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

credulousness
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

credulousness
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

credulousness
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of credulousness

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «CREDULOUSNESS»

The term «credulousness» is used very little and occupies the 179.544 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «CREDULOUSNESS» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about credulousness

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «CREDULOUSNESS»

Discover the use of credulousness in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to credulousness and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Black Pride and Black Prejudice
Credulousness or Sophistication? A sense of racial identification, whatever the specific form we have canvassed, is widespread in the black community. But it is by no means universal. How has this set of ideas about the importance of pride ...
Paul M. Sniderman, Thomas Leonard Piazza, 2002
2
World-Building and the Early Modern Imagination
Fantasy. Islands: Utopia,. The. Tempest,. and. New. Atlantis. as. Places. of. Controlled. Credulousness. Guido Giglioni ... works, for Utopia, Prospero's island, and Bensalem share the characteristic of being islands of controlled credulousness.
Allison B. Kavey, 2010
3
The British Quarterly Review
Constitutional Enthusiasm and Credulousness. 485 and too eager to leap to conclusions and to take up impressions, of which a more patient temperament would have been instinctively sceptical. He was not a reasoner so much as an ...
Henry Allon, 1868
4
Nature's Revelations of Character, Or, The Mental, Moral and ...
CREDULOUSNESS. THE ENDOWNENT WHEREBY ONE IS ENABLED TO RECEIVE AS TRUE THAT WHICH IS UNPROVEN. The eyebrows, when elevated far above the eyes, and present a large interciliary space, as in Harvey, are certain ...
Joseph Simms, 1873
5
The Many Faces of Socialism: Comparative Sociology and Politics
Credulousness and instant enthusiasm. Once more, we would search in vain for any explicit encouragement to present the positive hero as credulous. Yet a reading of the novels of the period conveys this characteristic. The positive hero is ...
Paul Hollander, 1983
6
Trust in Society
However, indiscriminate credulousness is not the definition of trust adopted for the ITS used in the studies discussed here. Rotter (1980, 4) claims that the Interpersonal Trust Scale he developed, the most commonly used measure of trust, ...
Karen Cook, 2001
7
Islamic Historiography: The Histories of Mas'udi
Credulousness could also appear in the guise of imitation, of the narration of historical reports through the blind acceptance of the authority of those who transmitted them.1 But most subtle of all is the credulousness of those who abdicated the ...
Tarif Khalidi, 1975
8
The Imaginary Signifier: Psychoanalysis and the Cinema
In other words, asks Mannoni, since it is 'accepted' that the audience is incredulous, who is it who is credulous and must be maintained in his credulousness by the perfect organisation of the machinery (of the machination)? This credulous ...
Christian Metz, 1982
9
The Long March: How the Cultural Revolution of the 1960s ...
credulousness. In 1970, when Timothy Leary broke out ofjail and he and his girlfriend arrived in Algiers, there was a brief moment of euphoria. They were guests of the Black Panthers and that seemed splendid at first. “Panthers are the hope of ...
Roger Kimball, 2013
10
Popular Science
Perhaps, however, there may be such credulousness where there is no prejudice , and yet incredulity still more marked where there is. I have been a careful observer of the attitude of Protestants in relation to the controversy between the ...

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «CREDULOUSNESS»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term credulousness is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Jeff Koons: 'People respond to banal things – they don't accept their …
... Koons is assumed to have profited from a certain credulousness that entered the art world along with all that money. Robert Hughes, the late ... «The Guardian, Jul 15»
2
Same-Sex Marriage in Cuba: An Absent Right
You'll see how they legalize it here in no time,” he says confidently, with the credulousness of someone who doesn't quite believe his own ... «Havana Times, Jul 15»
3
Nkrumah Nkrumah, Wole Soyinka, & Kongi's Harvest (3)
It is still the case that Soyinka's thespian parading of his almost “childlike” tendentious credulousness before the company of Obasanjo and ... «GhanaWeb, Jun 15»
4
How Has Digital Ubiquity Affected Fourth Amendment Law?
The court questioned the credulousness of the government's argument. In citing to Riley, the likening of a computer to a searchable container, ... «New York Law Journal, Jun 15»
5
Obesity expands cancer deaths
... biologist, decided to plumb the depths of the press's credulousness with a counterintuitive, superficially plausible and utterly fraudulent study. «The Australian, May 15»
6
A bogus study of chocolate and diets -- and the media that …
John Bohannon is a journalist who made something of a name for himself with a 2013 exposé of the credulousness of science journals. «Los Angeles Times, May 15»
7
Restaurant chain accused of undermining public trust in science
An opening paragraph from the New York Times's news report illustrates a sort of puffball credulousness that's easy to find in the coverage, ... «Physics Today, May 15»
8
HC sets up panel to probe 'missing' IAF land in Noida
How land acquired for an air bombing range for the IAF can vanish into thin air defies explanation and stretches the limits of credulousness." ... «Times of India, May 15»
9
$5.3 Trillion On Government Fossil Fuel Subsidies? What Total And …
But public credulousness is never a good thing for any bad cause to rely on. Crowds have a nasty habit of changing their mind quite suddenly; ... «Breitbart News, May 15»
10
'Elon Musk,' by Ashlee Vance
Yet, even if he's trying to stage-manage his past — an effort that appears to have been aided by Vance's occasional credulousness — there's ... «SFGate, May 15»

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« EDUCALINGO. Credulousness [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/credulousness>. May 2024 ».
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