Meanings
- uncountableCredulity.
A certain quantity of belief is a want of the human mind. Perhaps there is an Organ of Credulity, or Credulitivenes , which requires food.
1824, John Macculloch, The Highlands and Western Isles of Scotland, page 641 more example
In the popular discussion of it, there is something highly amusing, and it often applies to the character of individuals with peculiar fitness: but then it is sneered at by the witty, and confuted by the wise; and seriously to declare in its favor, is equivalent to a display of the full development of the organ of credulitiveness.
1826, J.C. Tomlinson, “Phrenology”, in The Pamphleteer, volume 26, number 52
Origin
From credulitive, (a nonce for credulous that satirizes the naming conventions of phrenology), + -ness.
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