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Incredulity

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

n. The state or quality of being incredulous; disbelief.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. Unwillingness or inability to believe; doubt about the truth or verisimilitude of something; disbelief.

n. Religious disbelief, lack of faith.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. The state or quality of being incredulous; a withholding or refusal of belief; skepticism; unbelief; disbelief.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. The quality of being incredulous or indisposed to believe; a withholding or refusal of belief; skepticism; unbelief.

n. Synonyms Disbelief, distrust, doubt.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

n. doubt about the truth of something

Word Usage

"It is evident these are the actual causes of those changes which the priests well know how to make use of against what they call incredulity; from which they draw proofs of the reality of their sublimated opinions."

Antonym

credulity

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

dubiousness dubiety incertitude doubt doubtfulness

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

skepticism unbelief disbelief doubt incredulousness

Same Context

Words that are found in similar contexts

disbelief derision disdain exasperation disapproval