TRUSTFULNESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does trustfulness mean? 

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

1. the trait of believing in the honesty and reliability of others

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• TRUSTFULNESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The trait of believing in the honesty and reliability of others

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

trust; trustfulness; trustingness

Context example:

the experience destroyed his trust and personal dignity

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

trait (a distinguishing feature of your personal nature)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "trustfulness"):

credulity (tendency to believe readily)

Derivation:

trustful (inclined to believe or confide readily; full of trust)

 Context examples 

His was not a lazy trustfulness that hoped, and did no more.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Penitence, humiliation, shame, pride, love, and trustfulness—I see them all; and in them all, I see that horror of I don't know what.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

But, finding you true gold, a very lady, and an ill-used innocent, with a fresh heart full of love and trustfulness—which you look like, and is quite consistent with your story!

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

When I think of him, with his impenetrably wise face, walking up and down with the Doctor, delighted to be battered by the hard words in the Dictionary; when I think of him carrying huge watering-pots after Annie; kneeling down, in very paws of gloves, at patient microscopic work among the little leaves; expressing as no philosopher could have expressed, in everything he did, a delicate desire to be her friend; showering sympathy, trustfulness, and affection, out of every hole in the watering-pot; when I think of him never wandering in that better mind of his to which unhappiness addressed itself, never bringing the unfortunate King Charles into the garden, never wavering in his grateful service, never diverted from his knowledge that there was something wrong, or from his wish to set it right—I really feel almost ashamed of having known that he was not quite in his wits, taking account of the utmost I have done with mine.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)