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Retirement Readiness — The state and/or degree of being ready for retirement. Retirement readiness typically refers to being financially prepared for retirement, or the degree to which an individual is on target to meet his or her retirement income goals so that the… … Investment dictionary
Day care sex abuse hysteria — occurred in the 1980s and early 1990s. [cite news |first= |last= |authorlink= |coauthors= |title=Parole Board recommends Amirault s commutation. |url=http://www.truthinjustice.org/amirault.htm |format=courtesy link from Truth in Justice|quote=The … Wikipedia
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Day-care sex-abuse hysteria — was a panic that occurred primarily in the 1980s and early 1990s featuring claims against daycare providers of satanic ritual abuse and several forms of child abuse.[1][2] A prominent case in Kern County, California, first brought the issue of… … Wikipedia
credulity — I noun belief, blind faith, credulitas, credulousness, deceivability, disposition to believe, easiness of belief, foolishness, gullibility, gullibleness, impressibility, innocence, lack of doubt, lack of dubiety, lack of dubiousness, lack of… … Law dictionary
credulous — [ krɛdjʊləs] adjective having or showing too great a readiness to believe things. Derivatives credulity krɪ dju:lɪti noun credulously adverb credulousness noun Origin C16: from L. credulus (from credere believe ) + ous … English new terms dictionary
Credulousness — Cred u*lous*ness, n. Readiness to believe on slight evidence; credulity. [1913 Webster] Beyond all credulity is the credulousness of atheists. S. Clarke. [1913 Webster] … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
credulity — n. Ease in believing, readiness to believe (on slight evidence), credulousness … New dictionary of synonyms
cre|du|li|ty — «kruh DOO luh tee, DYOO », noun. a too great readiness to believe … Useful english dictionary
