0 willingness to believe that something is real or true, especially when this is unlikely --
The second was ultimately weakened by its association with credulity and with discredited attempts to prove that spiritual agents could be observed at work in the world.
Why were they received with such credulity in their time?
At first blush, this example seems to stretch credulity somewhat.
It strains credulity to believe that this emergent, politically influential class will voluntarily enlist in a future march to socialism.
This claim is undeniable unless one were to stretch the limits of credulity.
And how can we explain the credulity that made photography of the occult so popular?
But to deny the existence of an independent objective material world, of which that mind is a copy, strains my credulity beyond its elastic limit.
Does it stretch credulity too far to suggest that his two associates were rather jealous of his personal charisma?
