Unbelief

3 definitions found

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

  Unbelief \Un`be*lief"\, n. [Pref. un- not + belief: cf. AS.
     ungele['a]fa.]
     1. The withholding of belief; doubt; incredulity; skepticism.
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     2. Disbelief; especially, disbelief of divine revelation, or


        in a divine providence or scheme of redemption.
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              Blind unbelief is sure to err,
              And scan his work in vain.            --Cowper.
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     Syn: See {Disbelief}.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  unbelief
       n : a rejection of belief [syn: {disbelief}] [ant: {belief}]

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

  21 Moby Thesaurus words for "unbelief":
     apprehension, atheism, disbelief, distrust, doubt, dubiety,
     faithlessness, gentilism, incredulity, infidelity, minimifidianism,
     misgiving, mistrust, nullifidianism, qualm, secularism, skepticism,
     suspicion, unbelievingness, uncertainty, unfaith