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Definition of Trustingness
1. Noun. The trait of believing in the honesty and reliability of others. "The experience destroyed his trust and personal dignity"
Generic synonyms: Trait
Specialized synonyms: Credulity
Antonyms: Distrust
Derivative terms: Trust, Trusty, Trustful, Trusting
Definition of Trustingness
1. Noun. The state of being trusting. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Trustingness
1. [n -ES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Trustingness
Literary usage of Trustingness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. American Annals of Education (1837)
"And, though wronged and slighted, it still retains its trustingness; still does
it cling to the Adult for renovation and light — But thus shall it not be ..."
2. American Annals of Education and Instruction by W. C. Woolbridge (1837)
"And, though wronged and slighted, it still retains its trustingness; still does
it cling to the Adult for renovation and light — But thus shall it not be ..."
3. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1876)
"Already it had lost confidence in every one of them; but the first time that
Ateles heard my voice, it approached me with a trustingness which was quite ..."
4. Lectures on the Philosophy of History by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, John Sibree (1902)
"Continuing the comparison with the ages of ' longer manifesting the repose and
trustingness of .the child, but boisterous and turbulent. ..."
5. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1862)
"Continuing the comparison with the ages of the individual man, this would be the
boyhood of history ; no longer manifesting the repose and trustingness of ..."
6. The Works of William Makepeace Thackeray by William Makepeace Thackeray, Sir Leslie Stephen (1898)
"few, but presently to reign over the world. Sure there is no bound to the
trustingness of women. Look at Arria worshipping the drunken ..."
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