Unbelief Synonyms

ŭn'bĭ-lēf'

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Synonyms for Unbelief

doubt
(Obs.) Apprehension or fear
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incredulity
Unwillingness or inability to believe; doubt; skepticism
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disbelief
Unpreparedness, unwillingness, or inability to believe that something is the case.
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uncertainty
Uncertainty is defined as doubt.
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discredit
Something that causes disgrace or loss of status
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incredulousness
(Rare) Incredulity; the state of being skeptical or in disbelief.
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skepticism
Skepticism is a general attitude of distrusting or doubting.
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agnosticism
The view that the existence of God or of all deities is unknown, unknowable, unproven, or unprovable.
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Words Related to Unbelief

impenitency
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belief
The definition of a belief is an opinion or something that a person holds to be true.
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idolatry
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impiety
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hardness of heart
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ignorance
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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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Unbelief Sentence Examples

  • By making religion hard it made it odious, and thus prepared the way for unbelief.

  • Had he repented of his unbelief?

  • On the speculative side, Ramanuja also met Sankara's strictly monistic theory by another recognizing Vishnu as identical with Brahma as the Supreme Spirit animating the material world as well as the individual souls which have become estranged from God through unbelief, and can only attain again conscious union with him through devotion or love (bhakti).

  • The name, as Huxley said, "took"; it was constantly used by Hutton in the Spectator and became a fashionable label for contemporary unbelief in Christian dogma.

  • The alternative was, to faith, forgiveness through divine forbearance; to unbelief, a warning of judgment to come.

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