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  • 21infatuation — Synonyms and related words: affection, ardor, blind faith, bug, calf love, case, craze, crazy fancy, credulity, credulousness, crush, devotion, disposition to believe, dotage, ease of belief, enthusiasm, fanaticism, fascination, fondness, frenzy …

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  • 22wishful thinking — Synonyms and related words: alienation, autism, autistic thinking, avoidance mechanism, bamboozlement, befooling, blame shifting, blind faith, bluffing, calculated deception, circumvention, compensation, conning, credulity, credulousness,… …

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  • 23credulity — (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Willingness to believe Nouns 1. credulity, credulousness, gullibility, ingenuousness, naiveté; self delusion, self deception; superstition; one s blind side; blind faith. See belief. 2. superstition, old… …

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  • 24Credulity — (Roget s Thesaurus) < N PARAG:Credulity >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 credulity credulity credulousness &c. >Adj. Sgm: N 1 gullible gullible cullibility Sgm: N 1 gross credulity gross credulity infatuation Sgm: N 1 self delusion self delusion …

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  • 25Hitler, Adolf — (1889–1945)    German dictator. By the time Hitler lay dead in a Berlin bunker, beneath the rubble of his Third Reich, his ‘final solution’ had accounted for the slaughter of one out of every three Jews on earth. The Holocaust was the greatest… …

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  • 26credulous — [ 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 …

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  • 27credulity — n. Ease in believing, readiness to believe (on slight evidence), credulousness …

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  • 28credulous — adjective always believing what you are told, and therefore easily deceived: This man has coaxed millions of pounds from a credulous public. credulously adverb credulousness noun (U) …

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  • 29dupe — vb Dupe, gull, befool, trick, hoax, hoodwink, bamboozle mean to delude a person by underhand means or for one s own ends. Dupe suggests unwariness or unsuspiciousness on the part of the person or persons deluded and the acceptance of what is… …

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  • 30credulity — n gullibility, gullibleness, credulousness, will to believe, blind faith, trustfulness, unsuspiciousness …

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