disbelief
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Etymology [edit]
Pronunciation [edit]
Noun [edit]
disbelief (plural disbeliefs)
- Unpreparedness, unwillingness, or inability to believe that something is the case.
- She cried out in disbelief on hearing that terrorists had crashed an airplane into the World Trade Center in New York City.
- astonishment
- I stared in disbelief at the Grand Canyon.
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Translations [edit]
Unpreparedness, unwillingness, or inability to believe that something is the case
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Astonishment
References [edit]
- “disbelief” in An American Dictionary of the English Language, by Noah Webster, 1828.
- disbelief in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- “disbelief” in Dictionary.com Unabridged, v1.0.1, Lexico Publishing Group, 2006.