English Language & Usage Asked on April 4, 2021
I’m trying to find a word that means a person’s ability to take things literally.
Much like how persuade would be persuasibility.
Example Sentence: "Her ___ is high. She takes things too literally"
Edit: I want a word that’s only tied to a person’s ability to interpret things literally. Not a word that’s tied to their capacity to trust.
It's possible you're thinking of gullibility, a tendency to trust whatever you're told, or easily duped. Definition at TFD.
Answered by Jim Mack on April 4, 2021
A frustrating question. She is unquestioning, credulous, uncritical, literal, over-literal, trusting, and naive. All these are easily checked in dictionaries and I do not tediously repeat definitions here.
But all these are adjectives, and you seem to ask for a noun. Weirdly, I find no appropriate noun to correspond to any of these adjectives.
Naivety is too wide a term, going well beyond the literate aspect you want. gullibity is a closely related term but is too strongly associated with being purposefully misled or deceived, so does not quite fit your specification.
Perhaps others will find a noun.
Answered by Anton on April 4, 2021
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