Credulity: lot of this going around lately
TDW: Credulity
Def: (noun) willingness to believe or trust too readily, especially without proper or adequate evidence; gullibility
Etymology: Either (i) a borrowing from French. Or (ii) a borrowing from Latin.
Etymons: French credulite; Latin crēdulitās.
\ (i) Middle French credulite (French credulité) fact of believing, belief, credence, readiness to believe (13th cent. in Old French; in modern French usually ‘imprudent or naive belief’), something that one believes, opinion (c1370),
or its etymon (ii) classical Latin crēdulitās trustfulness, readiness to believe, imprudence, in post-classical Latin also (with positive connotation) faith, credence, profession of the Christian faith (4th cent.) \ crēdulus (see credulous adj.) + ‑tās (see ‑ty suffix1; compare ‑ity suffix).
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