credulity
IPA: krɪdˈuɫʌti
noun
- A willingness to believe in someone or something in the absence of reasonable proof; credulousness.
- (now nonstandard) Faith, credence; acceptance or maintenance of a belief.
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Examples of "credulity" in Sentences
- I am astonished at the credulity.
- It merely reduces the credulity of the article.
- It's more a reflection of the public's credulity IMO.
- But the passage is so short it adds a quality of credulity.
- The happiness of credulity is a cheap and dangerous quality.
- As before, the photographs were received with mixed credulity.
- The coincidences so strain credulity that they border on a deus ex machina.
- Some of the final plot turns strain credulity, and Flynn has a thing for coining hyphenated words.
- [E] mploys a whiplash plot turn that may strain credulity, but its still an engaging suspense tale.
- If the Obamatons want to lead with this message, they have to understand that it will strain credulity that you just now figured out that this was unworkable.
- Their haplessness, ignorance and apathy are by-products of that still more basic corruption — and credulity is in fact a type of corruption in the current social/political arena writ large.
- In the circumstances widespread credulity is their greatest asset, and our greatest hazard — especially when we allow the discrete questions of quality (on one hand) and rarity (on the other) to get thoroughly mixed up.
- That the circumstances described are, sadly, fairly tame compared to the horrific situations I've encountered covering court cases, stuff that would probably strain credulity if I ever attempted to present any of it as fiction.
- A wife whose mind was oriented in the new direction effectually silenced her husband's ridicule of what he called her credulity by reminding him that when wireless telegraphy was first suggested he had exclaimed, "Ah, that, you know, is one of the things that is not possible!"
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