Another word for unbelief
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Noun
The refusal or reluctance to believe
- Unpreparedness, unwillingness, or inability to believe that something is the case.
- Astonishment
- Refusal to believe; absence of belief
- Something that causes disgrace or loss of status
- The act of discrediting or disbelieving, or the state of being discredited or disbelieved.
- Lack or loss of trust or belief; doubt:
- The state or quality of being incredulous; disbelief.
- Unwillingness or inability to believe; doubt; skepticism
- (Rare) Incredulity; the state of being skeptical or in disbelief.
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Another word for unbelief
Noun
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- Astonishment
- Unpreparedness, unwillingness, or inability to believe that something is the case.
- Refusal to believe; absence of belief
- A feeling of uncertainty or distrust:
- (Obs.) Apprehension or fear
- The condition of being unsettled or unresolved:
- (US) A studied attitude of questioning and doubt
- A methodology based on an assumption of doubt with the aim of acquiring approximate or relative certainty.
- Doubt or disbelief of religious tenets.
- The state or quality of being incredulous; disbelief.
- Unwillingness or inability to believe; doubt; skepticism
- Something uncertain:
- (Uncountable) Doubt; the condition of being uncertain or without conviction.
- Lack of certainty; doubt
- The doctrine of agnostics
- The doctrine that certainty about first principles or absolute truth is unattainable and that only perceptual phenomena are objects of exact knowledge.
- The belief that the existence or nonexistence of a deity or deities cannot be known with certainty.
Synonym Study
- Incredulity implies a general skepticism or disinclination to believe
- Disbelief suggests a positive refusal to believe an assertion, theory, etc. she listened with disbelief to his ridiculous accusations
- Unbelief implies merely a lack of belief, as because of insufficient evidence, esp. in matters of religion or faith
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