trustfulness
trustfulness — noun
1. the quality of being willing to trust other people easily and to believe that th
the quality of being willing to trust other people easily and to believe that they are honest and mean you no harm
Élise's natural trustfulness made it easy for new classmates to become her friends.
The old dog's gentle trustfulness toward the children touched the whole family.
collocation: trustfulness toward [someone]
Rohan's trustfulness meant he rarely questioned anyone's promises or intentions.
Beatrix saw her trustfulness as a strength, not a weakness she needed to fix.
Femi's trustfulness of strangers sometimes worried his more cautious older sister.
- trust
broader in meaning; can refer to a single instance or a general attitude, whereas trustfulness specifically describes a personality trait
- openness
focuses on willingness to share thoughts and feelings, not necessarily on believing others are honest
- innocence
implies inexperience or lack of awareness of bad motives, which trustfulness does not always carry
- distrustfulness
the tendency to suspect others' motives and be unwilling to trust
- suspiciousness
more active and watchful than distrustfulness; implies looking for signs of dishonesty
用法筆記
This word is more common in formal or descriptive writing about character than in everyday conversation. The context determines whether trustfulness is presented as a virtue (openness) or a weakness (naivety).