Crossword clues for gullibility
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1793, earlier cullibility (1728), probably from gull (n.2) "dupe, sucker" + -ability.
Wiktionary
n. The quality of readily believing information, truthful or otherwise, usually to an absurd extent.
WordNet
n. tendency to believe too readily and therefore to be easily deceived [syn: credulousness]
Wikipedia
Gullibility is a failure of social intelligence in which a person is easily tricked or manipulated into an ill-advised course of action. It is closely related to credulity, which is the tendency to believe unlikely propositions that are unsupported by evidence.
Classes of people especially vulnerable to exploitation due to gullibility include children, the elderly, and the developmentally disabled.
Usage examples of "gullibility".
If we reckon the scepticism that Gibbon says characterized his time to have declined in ours, and if even a little of the rampant gullibility he attributes to late classical times is left over in ours, should we not expect something like demons to find a niche in the popular culture of the present?
The leading television programme in the country had gone out of its way to expose shoddy standards of fact-checking and widespread gullibility in institutions devoted to news and public affairs.
CSICOP represents a counterbalance, although not yet nearly a loud enough voice, to the pseudoscience gullibility that seems second nature to so much of the media.
With our immense body of laws and our formidable talent for making the cogs and gears of government work in the interests of Rome as we know it, there is no necessity to exploit the political gullibility of the lowly.
He saw their greed and prejudice, their gullibility, their perfidy, their baseness.
Contradiction is the distinguishing essence of all Levantine peoples but Jewish gullibility has a particular character of its own.
Unfortunately, due to their gullibility and a concerted effort to brainwash them, they are willing to follow the witches and wizards and shamans who traffic in these matters.
Thus, for instance, the old-fashioned witch is no longer found in any part of Ireland, her memory lingering only as a tradition, but her modern successor is frequently met with, and in many parishes a retired hovel in a secluded lane is a favorite resort of the neighboring peasants, for it is the home of the Pishogue, or wise woman, who collects herbs, and, in her way, doctors her patients, sometimes with simple medicinal remedies, sometimes with charms, according to their gullibility and the nature of their ailments.
I tell you, George Kettleman, these people are preying on your gullibility.
American book, I forget its title, written some time ago, to show the simplicity, gullibility, and vindictivness of our Trollopean travellers.
To-day the case is commonly cited as proof of the gullibility of juries and of the impossibility of convicting a rich man of a crime.
Given visual evidence, they would have to believe their own eyes and tests, eat humble pie over their past gullibility, and confirm the truth.
In many cases their only claim to exceptionality is their abnormal gullibility and extraordinary capacity for self-delusion.
I was as foolish as I had ever been, no, even stupider, for the gullibility of a boy is fatuousness in a man.
Later the clause was invoked to bring in the dancers and the prostitutes, the gamblers and the fortune-tellers, and all the others who catered to the more basic needs and preyed on the gullibilities of this rough-and-ready pioneer community.