Incredulousness

  • 21incredulity — I noun amazement, denial, disbelief, discredit, distrust, distrustfulness, doubt, doubtfulness, dubiety, dubiousness, faithlessness, inability to accept, inability to believe, inconvincability, incredulousness, indisposition to admit,… …

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  • 22disbelief — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. II (Roget s IV) n. Syn. unbelief, skepticism, mistrust, incredulity; see doubt 1 , wonder 1 . See Synonym Study at unbelief . III (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) n. doubt, incredulity, questioning,… …

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  • 23discredit — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. t. disparage, stigmatize, shame; doubt, disbelieve, impeach. See disrepute, doubt. Ant., prove, rehabilitate. II (Roget s IV) n. Syn. censure, reproach, disrepute; see blame 1 , disgrace 1 . v. 1. [To …

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  • 24unbelief — I (Roget s IV) n. Syn. disbelief, doubt, skepticism, incredulity, uncertainty, agnosticism; see also doubt 1 , uncertainty 1 . Syn. unbelief implies merely a lack of belief, as because of insufficient evidence, esp. in matters of religion or… …

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  • 25Irreligion — (Roget s Thesaurus) < N PARAG:Irreligion >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 irreligion irreligion indevotion Sgm: N 1 ungodliness ungodliness &c. >Adj. Sgm: N 1 laxity laxity quietism GRP: N 2 Sgm: N 2 skepticism skepticism …

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  • 26incredulous — (adj.) unbelieving, 1570s, from L. incredulus unbelieving, incredulous, from in not (see IN (Cf. in ) (1)) + credulus (see CREDULOUS (Cf. credulous)). Formerly also of religious beliefs. Related: Incredulously; incredulousness …

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  • 27incredulous — adjective unwilling or unable to believe something. Derivatives incredulity noun incredulously adverb incredulousness noun …

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  • 28incredulity — n. Incredulousness, distrust, scepticism, want of belief, indisposition to believe …

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  • 29disbelief — noun 1) she stared at him in disbelief Syn: incredulity, astonishment, amazement, surprise, incredulousness; skepticism, doubt, doubtfulness, dubiousness; cynicism, suspicion, distrust, mistrust; formal dubiety 2) I guess I ll burn in hell for my …

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  • 30agnosticism — n skepticism, unbelief, Pyrrhonism, doubt, disbelief; incredulity, incredulousness, cynicism; empiricism, materialism, phenomenalism; heresy, atheism, freethinking …

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