incredulity

Noun

Meaning

The state or quality of being i/credulous; a withholding or refusal of belief; skepticism; unbelief; disbelief.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

skepticism disbelief incredulousness mental rejection question confusion doubt surprise questioning wonder distrust atheism hesitation infidelity mistrust
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Antonyms

credulity thunderbolt caprice belief faith credit
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Hypernyms

doubt dubiety uncertainty doubtfulness dubiousness incertitude

Related terms

incredulous incredibility

Examples

Simplifying to the extreme, I define postmodern as incredulity toward metanarratives. Jean-François Lyotard

Only puny secrets need protection. Big secrets are protected by public incredulity. Marshall McLuhan

Knowledge of divine things for the most part, as Heraclitus says, is lost to us by incredulity. Plutarch

The first step towards philosophy is incredulity. Denis Diderot

Incredulity robs us of many pleasures, and gives us nothing in return. James Russell Lowell

Sometimes the fluffy bunny of incredulity zooms around the bend so rapidly that the greyhound of language is left, agog, in the starting cage. David Mitchell (author)

Close letter words and terms

incredibly tedious incredibubble incredited incredulosity incredulous incredulously