Meaning of INCREDULITY
| Pronunciation: | | `inkri'doolitee
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| | Definition: | | [n] doubt about the truth of something |
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| | Synonyms: | | disbelief, mental rejection, skepticism |
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| | See Also: | | doubt, doubtfulness, dubiety, dubiousness, incertitude, uncertainty | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \In`cre*du"li*ty\, n. [L. incredu?itas: cf. F.
incr['e]dulit['e].]
The state or quality of being i?credulous; a withholding or
refusal of belief; skepticism; unbelief; disbelief.
Of every species of incredulity, religious unbelief is
the most irrational. --Buckminster.
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| | Related Terms: | | agnosticism, atheism, denial, disbelief, discredit, doubt, heresy, Humism, inability to believe, infidelity, minimifidianism, misbelief, nonbelief, nullifidianism, Pyrrhonism, rejection, scoffing, skepticism, unbelief, unbelievingness, unfaith |
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