Word Prevalence

Meaning and example

tendency to believe readily

The passage used "credulity" to mean tendency to believe readily.

Plain-English interpretation

A prevalence score of 1.012 places credulity in the uncommon range on this site. In practical terms, the word was recognized by about 84.8% of people in the source dataset.

Related words

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Similar-prevalence words

acquiesceUncommon

Known by: 85.1%

to agree or express agreement

reprobateUncommon

Known by: 84.5%

a person without moral scruples

floutUncommon

Known by: 85.2%

treat with contemptuous disregard

derideUncommon

Known by: 84.2%

treat or speak of with contempt

perniciousUncommon

Known by: 85.3%

exceedingly harmful

Source attribution

Brysbaert, M., Mandera, P., McCormick, S. F., & Keuleers, E. (2019). Word prevalence norms for 62,000 English lemmas. Behavior Research Methods, 51, 467-479.