Today’s “Word of the Day” is “credulity“ and it is a noun and its meaning is “a tendency to easily believe that something is real/true when it isn’t; gullibility, naivety, blind faith, over-trustfulness, lack of suspicion, innocence, unworldliness, childlikeness, ignorance”.
Example Sentence: To say that an expanded provisioning of rations outweighed the combined effects of all these governance deficits stretches credulity. It is hard to think of an Indian electorate (voters) in the third decade of the 21st century being swept off its feet with bags of food grains — something they have come to expect from the government for at least half a century.
This word is present in The Hindu article a demonstration of a durable political phenomenon and click here to read it.
Courtesy: The Hindu
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