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• n  tendency to believe too readily and therefore to be easily deceived

• They apparently existed only in the vast credulousness of some people like a Manhattan socialite named Dudley Pierrepont Gilbert, who had nothing better to do after he lost his .

• gullibility

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• Gene Lyons: ‘Make my day:’ True believers in a firearm fantasy
  Conceived in a dream of reason, what the Internet too often reveals is mass credulousness and fathomless irrationality. According to Salon’s Alex Seitz-Wald, a video depicting the Newtown, Conn., elementary school massacre as a government-sponsored hoax has drawn 8.5 million views on YouTube.
  March 24, 2014 - The Daily Advance