GULLIBILITY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does gullibility mean? 

• GULLIBILITY (noun)
  The noun GULLIBILITY has 1 sense:

1. tendency to believe too readily and therefore to be easily deceived

  Familiarity information: GULLIBILITY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GULLIBILITY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Tendency to believe too readily and therefore to be easily deceived

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

credulousness; gullibility

Hypernyms ("gullibility" is a kind of...):

naiveness; naivete; naivety (lack of sophistication or worldliness)

Derivation:

gullible (easily tricked because of being too trusting)

gullible (naive and easily deceived or tricked)