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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | doubt |
| Synonyms: | doubtfulness, dubiousness, incertitude, indecision, uncertainty |
| Antonyms: | certainty |
ɪ| Main Entry: | disbelief |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | doubt, skepticism |
| Synonyms: | atheism, distrust, dubiety, incredulity, mistrust, nihilism, rejection, repudiation, spurning, unbelief, unbelievingness, unfaith |
| Antonyms: | belief, trust |
| Main Entry: | doubt |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | lack of faith, conviction; questioning |
| Synonyms: | agnosticism, ambiguity, apprehension, confusion, demurral, difficulty, diffidence, dilemma, disbelief, discredit, disquiet, distrust, dubiety, dubiousness, faithlessness, faltering, fear, hesitancy, hesitation, incertitude, incredulity, indecision, irresolution, lack of confidence, misgiving, mistrust, perplexity, problem, qualm, quandary, rejection, reluctance, scruple, skepticism, suspense, suspicion, uncertainty, vacillation, wavering |
| Antonyms: | belief, certainty, confidence, dependence, faith, reliance, trust |
| Main Entry: | hesitation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | waiting; uncertainty |
| Synonyms: | averseness, dawdling, delay, delaying, demurral, doubt, dubiety, equivocation, faltering, fluctuation, fumbling, hemming and hawing, hesitancy, indecision, indecisiveness, indisposition, irresolution, misgiving, mistrust, oscillation, pause, procrastination, qualm, reluctance, scruple, skepticism, stammering, stumbling, stuttering, unwillingness, vacillation, wavering |
| Notes: | hesitancy is a quality or state, while hesitation is an act |
| Antonyms: | certainty, eagerness, go, perseverance, sureness |
| Main Entry: | mistrust |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | doubtfulness |
| Synonyms: | apprehension, chariness, concern, distrust, doubt, dubiety, dubiosity, fear, foreboding, incertitude, misgiving, presentiment, scruple, skepticism, suspicion, uncertainty, wariness, wonder |
| Antonyms: | belief, certainty, confidence, faith, trust |
| Main Entry: | query |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | demand for answers |
| Synonyms: | concern, doubt, dubiety, inquiry, interrogation, interrogatory, mistrust, objection, problem, question, questioning, reservation, skepticism, suspicion, uncertainty |
| Antonyms: | answer, reply |
| Main Entry: | question |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | controversy, doubt |
| Synonyms: | argument, challenge, confusion, contention, debate, demur, demurral, difficulty, dispute, dubiety, enigma, misgiving, mystery, objection, problem, protest, puzzle, query, remonstrance, remonstration, uncertainty |
| Antonyms: | concord, harmony |
| Main Entry: | skepticism |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | doubt |
| Synonyms: | agnosticism, apprehension, disbelief, distrust, dubiety, dubiousness, faithlessness, hesitation, indecision, lack of confidence, leeriness, questioning, reluctance, suspicion, uncertainty |
| Main Entry: | suspicion |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | doubt |
| Synonyms: | bad vibes, chariness, conjecture, cynicism, distrust, dubiety, dubiosity, funny feeling, guess, guesswork, gut feeling, hunch, idea, impression, incertitude, incredulity, jealousy, lack of confidence, misgiving, mistrust, nonbelief, notion, qualm, skepticism, sneaking suspicion, supposition, surmise, uncertainty, wariness, wonder |
| Antonyms: | trust |
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