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

Example sentences :

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

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