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| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | refusal to believe |
| Synonyms: | abnegation, agnosticism, anarchy, atheism, denial, disbelief, disorder, lawlessness, mob rule, nonbelief, rejection, renunciation, repudiation, skepticism, terrorism |
| Antonyms: | belief, faith, obedience, optimism |
| Main Entry: | atheism |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | belief that no God exists |
| Synonyms: | disbelief, doubt, freethinking, godlessness, heresy, iconoclasm, impiety, infidelity, irreligion, irreverence, nihilism, nonbelief, paganism, skepticism, unbelief |
| Antonyms: | belief, godliness, piety, religion |
| 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: | incredulousness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | disbelief |
| Synonyms: | atheism, discredit, distrust, dubiety, incredulity, mistrust, nihilism, rejection, repudiation, spurning, unbelief, unbelievingness, unfaith |
| Main Entry: | unbelief |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | disbelief |
| Synonyms: | atheism, discredit, distrust, dubiety, incredulity, incredulousness, mistrust, nihilism, rejection, repudiation, spurning, unbelievingness, unfaith |
| Main Entry: | anarchy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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anarchic, anarchical, anarchistic, communistic, insubordinate, nihilistic, ungovernable, unruly
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| Concept: | Unbelief. Doubt. |
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-nouns
unbelief, disbelief, misbelief; discredit, miscreance; infidelity (irreligion); dissent; change of opinion; retractation., doubt (uncertainty); skepticism, misgiving, demure; distrust, mistrust; misdoubt, suspicion, jealousy, scruple, qualm; onus probandi., incredibility, incredibleness; incredulity., unbeliever.
-verbs
disbelieve, discredit; not believe; misbelieve; refuse to admit (dissent); refuse to believe (incredulity)., doubt; be doubtful (uncertain); doubt the truth of; be skeptical as to; diffide; distrust, mistrust; suspect, smoke, scent, smell a rat; have doubts, harbor doubts, entertain doubts, suspicions; have one's doubts., demure, stick at, pause, hesitate, scruple; stop to consider, waver., hang in suspense, hang in doubt., throw doubt upon, raise a question; bring in, call in question; question, challenge, dispute; deny; cavil; cause a doubt, raise a doubt, start a doubt, suggest a doubt, awake a doubt, make suspicion; ergotize, startle, stagger; shake one's faith, shake one's belief, stagger one's faith, stagger one's belief.
-adjectives
unbelieving; incredulous as to, skeptical as to; distrustful as to, shy as to, suspicious of; doubting, doubtful (uncertain); disputable; unworthy of, undeserving of belief [more]; questionable; suspect, suspicious; open to suspicion, open to doubt; staggering, hard to believe, incredible, not to be believed, inconceivable., fallible (uncertain); undemonstrable; controvertible (untrue).
-adverbs
cum grano salis [Latin: with a grain of salt]; with grains of allowance.
-phrases
fronti nulla fides; nimium ne crede colori [Vergil]; "timeo Danaos et dona ferentes" [Vergil]; credat Judaeus Apella [Horace]; let those believe who may; ad tristem partem
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| Antonyms: | belief |
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