Incredulity

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Incredulity \In`cre*du"li*ty\, n. [L. incredulitas: cf. F.
     incr['e]dulit['e].]
     The state or quality of being incredulous; a withholding or
     refusal of belief; skepticism; unbelief; disbelief.
     [1913 Webster]
  


           Of every species of incredulity, religious unbelief is
           the most irrational.                     --Buckminster.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  incredulity
       n : doubt about the truth of something [syn: {disbelief}, {skepticism},
            {mental rejection}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  21 Moby Thesaurus words for "incredulity":
     Humism, Pyrrhonism, agnosticism, atheism, denial, disbelief,
     discredit, doubt, heresy, inability to believe, infidelity,
     minimifidianism, misbelief, nonbelief, nullifidianism, rejection,
     scoffing, skepticism, unbelief, unbelievingness, unfaith