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The gap between what's true and what you'll believe before coffee.
means A readiness to believe things on too little evidence — the quality of being easily convinced.
from From Latin credulitas, built on credere, 'to believe' or 'to trust' — the same root that gives us credit, creed, and credible. Credere itself traces back to an ancient Indo-European compound roughly meaning 'to place one's heart,' linking belief to something closer to faith than logic. Latin writers already used credulus to mean someone a bit too quick to trust, so the word arrived in English in the 1500s already carrying its gently mocking edge.
- root meaning
- from Latin credere, to believe or trust
- not the same as
- gullibility implies being fooled; credulity just believes too easily
- con artists love it
- every scam targets credulity, not intelligence
- cure attempt
- critical thinking classes barely dent it