What are some opposite words for credulity?
Antonyms for credulity
krəˈdu lɪ ti, -ˈdyu-creduli·ty
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credulitynoun
Antonyms:
incredulitycredulitynoun
Antonyms:
incredulity
English Synonyms and Antonyms
credulity
Fanaticism is extravagant or even frenzied zeal; bigotry is obstinate and unreasoning attachment to a cause or creed; fanaticism and bigotry usually include intolerance, which is unwillingness to tolerate beliefs or opinions contrary to one's own; superstition is ignorant and irrational religious belief. Credulity is not distinctively religious, but is a general readiness to believe without sufficient evidence, with a proneness to accept the marvellous. Bigotry is narrow, fanaticism is fierce, superstition is ignorant, credulity is weak, intolerance is severe. Bigotry has not the capacity to reason fairly, fanaticism has not the patience, superstition has not the knowledge and mental discipline, intolerance has not the disposition. Bigotry, fanaticism, and superstition are perversions of the religious sentiment; credulity and intolerance often accompany skepticism or atheism.
Antonyms:
cynicism, free-thinking, indifference, latitudinarianismSynonyms:
bigotry, fanaticism, intolerance, superstition
Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms
credulity
Antonyms:
incredulity, scepticism, suspiciousness, shrewdnessSynonyms:
gullibility, simplicity, acceptativeness, openmouthedness
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Princeton's WordNet
credulitynoun
tendency to believe readily
How to use credulity in a sentence?
One of the chief obstacles to intelligence is credulity, and credulity could be enormously diminished by instructions as to the prevalent forms of mendacity. Credulity is a greater evil in the present day than it ever was before, because, owing to the growth of education, it is much easier than it used to be to spread misinformation, and, owing to democracy, the spread of misinformation is more important than in former times to the holders of power.
When the only American citizen President Trump singles out for China's investigation is his political opponent in the midst of the Democratic nomination process, it strains credulity to suggest that it is anything other than politically motivated. By all appearances, the President's brazen and unprecedented appeal to China and to Ukraine to investigate Hunter Biden is wrong and appalling.
Credulity is the man's weakness, but the child's strength.
When the only American citizen President Trump singles out for China's investigation is his political opponent in the midst of the Democratic nomination process, it strains credulity to suggest that it is anything other than politically motivated.
Credulity is belief in slight evidence, with no evidence, or against evidence.
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