"gullibility" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ˈɡʌlɪbɪlɪti/, /ˈɡʌləbɪləti/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-gullibility.wav [Southern-England] Forms: gullibilities [plural]
Etymology: From gullible + -ity. Etymology templates: {{af|en|gullible|-ity}} gullible + -ity Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} gullibility (countable and uncountable, plural gullibilities)
  1. The quality of readily believing information, truthful or otherwise, usually to an absurd extent. Tags: countable, uncountable Synonyms: credulity Related terms: gull, gullible, gullibly Translations (quality of being easily deceived): سَذَاجَة (saḏāja) [feminine] (Arabic), доверчивост (doverčivost) (Bulgarian), лековерие (lekoverie) [neuter] (Bulgarian), credulitat [feminine] (Catalan), 易受骗 (Chinese Mandarin), důvěřivost [feminine] (Czech), lichtgelovigheid [feminine] (Dutch), herkkäuskoisuus (Finnish), crédulité [feminine] (French), credulidade [feminine] (Galician), Leichtgläubigkeit [feminine] (German), ευπιστία (efpistía) [feminine] (Greek), αφέλεια (aféleia) [feminine] (Greek), תמימות (tmimút) [feminine] (Hebrew), crēdulitās [feminine] (Latin), лековерност (lekovernost) [feminine] (Macedonian), whakapono tūpatokore (Maori), naiwność, łatwowierność [feminine] (Polish), credulidade [feminine] (Portuguese), дове́рчивость (dovérčivostʹ) [feminine] (Russian), простоду́шие (prostodúšije) [neuter] (Russian), наи́вность (naívnostʹ) [feminine] (Russian), lakovjernost [feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), credulidad [feminine] (Spanish), tragaderas [feminine, plural] (Spanish), godtrbogenhet (Swedish), kamapaniwalain (Tagalog), tính cả tin (Vietnamese)

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