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| Concept: | Credulity. |
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-nouns
credulity, credulousness; gullible, cullibility; gross credulity, infatuation; self delusion, self deception; superstition; one's blind side; bigotry (obstinacy); hyperorthodoxy; misjudgment., credulous person (dupe).
-verbs
be credulous; jurare in verba magistri; follow implicitly; swallow, gulp down; take on trust; take for granted, take for gospel; run away with a notion, run away with an idea; jump to a conclusion, rush to a conclusion; think the moon is made of green cheese; take for granted, grasp the shadow for the substance; catch at straws., impose upon (deceive).
-adjectives
credulous, gullible; easily deceived; simple, green, soft, childish, silly, stupid; easily convinced; over-credulous, over confident, over trustful; infatuated, superstitious; confiding (believing).
-phrases
the wish the father to the thought; credo quia impossibile [Tertullian]; all is not gold that glitters; no es oro todo lo que reluce; omne ignotum pro magnifico.
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| Antonyms: | incredulity |
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| Main Entry: | naiveté |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | innocence, gullibility |
| Synonyms: | artlessness, callowness, candor, childishness, credulity, frankness, guilelessness, inexperience, ingenuousness, naturalness, openness, simplicity |
| Antonyms: | experience, leeriness, skepticism, sophistication |
| Main Entry: | naïveté |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | innocence |
| Synonyms: | artlessness, callowness, candor, childishness, credulity, frankness, guilelessness, gullibility, inexperience, ingenuousness, naturalness, openness, simplicity |
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| Main Entry: | faith |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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God, Mohammedan, accredited, acroamatic, alterocentric, aniconic, antediluvian, assured, autocephalous, believed, believing, blessed, born, certain, cleocentric, cocksure, collegial, commanding belief, confident, confiding, convinced, credible, credulous, defrocked, deserving of belief, doctrinal, epideistic, faithworthy, fidlimplicitary, fiducial, fiduciary, filiopletistic, hagiolatrous, hallowed, heliolatrous, holy, imbued with, impressed with, impressive, interdenominational, judaical, kosher, mystical, numinous, penetrated with, persuasive, piacular, pistic, positive, prelapsarian, probable, profane, putative, reborn, recreant, relating to belief, reliable, sacred, sacrosanct, satisfactory, satisfied, saved, secure, sure, suspectless, to be depended upon, trustworthy, ultrafidian, under the impression, unhesitating, unholy, unsuspected, unsuspecting, unsuspicious, venerable, void of suspicion, wedded to, worthy of belief
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