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Unbelief

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

n. Lack of belief or faith, especially in religious matters.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. An absence (or rejection) of belief, especially religious belief

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. The withholding of belief; doubt; incredulity; skepticism.

n. Disbelief; especially, disbelief of divine revelation, or in a divine providence or scheme of redemption.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. Incredulity; the withholding of belief; disbelief; especially, disbelief of divine revelation.

n. Disbelief of the truth of the gospel; distrust of God's promises and faithfulness, etc. Mat. xiii. 58; Mark vi. 6; Heb. iii. 12.

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

n. a rejection of belief

Word Usage

"There are times when the word unbelief is used to describe the doubts of those who are definitely believers but only when they are at a stage of doubting which is rationally inexcusable and well on the way to becoming full-grown unbelief e.g."

Antonym

belief

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

content mental object cognitive content

Cross Reference

doubt

Hyponym

atheism skepticism scepticism agnosticism

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

disbelief doubt incredulity skepticism heresy

Same Context

Words that are found in similar contexts

incredulity scepticism insensibility infidelity apostasy