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Antonyms for gullibility
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : guhl-uh-buhl |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈgʌl ə bəl |
Definition of gullibility
Origin :- 1793, earlier cullibility (1728), probably from gull (n.2) "dupe, sucker" + -ability.
- As in innocence : noun harmlessness, naiveté
- As in naïveté : noun innocence
- As in inexpertness : noun inexperience
- But anger at my own gullibility had killed her power to draw me, and I shook her off.
- Extract from : « City of Endless Night » by Milo Hastings
- We seem to identify imagination with gullibility or vague thinking.
- Extract from : « Here and Now Story Book » by Lucy Sprague Mitchell
- From a physiological point of view the gullibility of the audience is astounding.
- Extract from : « Indian Conjuring » by L. H. Branson
- True, there are limits to its gullibility; there are suggestions from which it recoils.
- Extract from : « Egotism in German Philosophy » by George Santayana
- Sampson sat meditating on the gullibility of man in matters medical.
- Extract from : « Hard Cash » by Charles Reade
- His gullibility was such that he believed everything he was told.
- Extract from : « An Atheist Manifesto » by Joseph Lewis
- People must learn to curb their gullibility in such affairs.
- Extract from : « The Business of Mining » by Arthur J. Hoskin
- No greater proof of the gullibility of the British public could be adduced than their swallowing such an announcement.
- Extract from : « The Library Magazine of Select Foreign Literature » by Various
- He gave me a look like that of a costermonger weighing and measuring the gullibility of his customer.
- Extract from : « The Master of Appleby » by Francis Lynde
- The gentleman who devised that sentence must have had, indeed, an implicit reliance in the gullibility of mankind!
- Extract from : « Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 70, No. 433, November 1851 » by Various
Synonyms for gullibility
- artlessness
- callowness
- candidness
- candor
- childishness
- credulity
- credulousness
- forthrightness
- frankness
- freshness
- greenness
- guilelessness
- gullibility
- ignorance
- inexperience
- ingenuousness
- innocuousness
- innoxiousness
- inoffensiveness
- lack
- naturalness
- nescience
- openness
- plainness
- purity
- rawness
- simplicity
- sincerity
- unaffectedness
- unawareness
- unfamiliarity
- unknowingness
- unsophistication
- unworldliness
- virtue
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