Synonyms of gullibility

gullibility

noun

as in naïveté

readiness to believe the claims of others without sufficient evidence

teased her about her well-known gullibility by repeatedly offering to sell her the Brooklyn Bridge

Synonyms & Similar Words

• naïveté
• credulity
• belief
• credulousness
• simplicity
• credibility
• simpleness
• naiveness
• artlessness
• unworldliness
• trust
• faith
• unsophistication
• unwariness

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• skepticism
• incredulity
• sophistication
• worldliness
• distrust
• suspicion
• wariness
• mistrust
• suspiciousness
• uncertainty
• doubt
• misdoubt

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of gullibility

Members must accommodate themselves to its fictions, with varying mixtures of gullibility and cynicism; followers shown proof that the leader has lied may admire him all the more for his tactical cleverness. — David Denby, New Yorker, 10 Aug. 2026

Mason highlights – with levity and humor – how erroneous ideas, gullibility, and blinders can lead even people who should know better down rabbit holes. — Monitor Reviewers, Christian Science Monitor, 23 July 2026

With no way to secure this crucial boundary, Microsoft and its peers are left to erect complicated and ad hoc guardrails designed to rein in the consequences of this incurable gullibility. — Dan Goodin, ArsTechnica, 16 June 2026

Their bond — both are outsiders who suffered abuse as children — is one of the few emotional soft spots in the otherwise fast-moving series about America’s rotten power structure, manipulative media and the gullibility of the public. — Los Angeles Times, 13 May 2026

These forces—economic uncertainty, political division, and toxic algorithms—work in a vicious cycle to try and tell us that empathy is weakness… that kindness is gullibility… that sincerity is for suckers. — Dejanay Booth-Singleton, CBS News, 26 Feb. 2026

The Enlightenment faith in reason, science, and free speech, already weakened by the First World War, had been devastated by an unprecedented bureaucracy of mass death, sustained by technology, systematic deceit, widespread gullibility, and eager acquiescence. — Victor J. Blue, Harpers Magazine, 23 Nov. 2025

That’s the gullibility these movies tap into — our desire, underneath it all, to believe the impossible. — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 11 Nov. 2025

And in a world where time is money, conditions are ripe for a perfect storm of greed, deceit, and willful gullibility—all in the hope of getting ahead faster than the rest. — Luis E. Romero, Forbes.com, 27 Aug. 2025