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credulity

N ความเชื่อ คน ง่าย  kwam-chuea-kon-ngai

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

CREDULITY

n.[L., to believe. See Creed and Credulous. ] Easiness of belief; a weakness of mind by which a person is disposed to believe, or yield his assent to a declaration or proposition, without sufficient evidence of the truth of what is said or proposed; a disposition to believe on slight evidence or no evidence at all.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

CREDULITY

Cre *du "li *ty (kr-d "l-t ), n. Etym: [L. credulitas, fr. credulus: cf. F. cr. See Credulous. ]

 

Defn: Readiness of belief; a disposition to believe on slight evidence. That implict credulity is the mark of a feeble mind will not be disputed. Sir W. Hamilton.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

credulity

cre du li ty |krəˈd (y )o͞olitē krəˈd (j )ulədi | noun a tendency to be too ready to believe that something is real or true.

 

Oxford Dictionary

credulity

credulity |krɪˈdjuːlɪti | noun [ mass noun ] a tendency to be too ready to believe that something is real or true.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

credulity

credulity noun moneylenders prey upon their credulity and inexperience: gullibility, gullibleness, credulousness, naivety, naiveness, blind faith, trustfulness, over-trustfulness, lack of suspicion, innocence, ingenuousness, unworldliness, lack of experience, lack of sophistication, guilelessness, greenness, callowness, childlikeness, simpleness, simplicity, ignorance. ANTONYMS worldliness; suspicion.

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

credulity

cre du li ty /krəd j úːləti /名詞 U ⦅書 ⦆軽々しく信じること, 信じやすいこと, すぐに信じ込む性質 [傾向 ].