incredulity

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Attested since 1430. From incredible, or from Old French incredulité with stems from Latin incredulitas, both stemming from incredibilis 'unbelievable', itself from in- 'not' + credere 'to believe' + -bilis '-able'

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Singular
incredulity

Plural
uncountable

incredulity (uncountable)

  1. Unwillingness or inability to believe; doubt about the truth of something; disbelief.
    • 1916, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar, ch. 24:
      Wide went her eyes in wonder and incredulity, as she beheld this seeming apparition risen from the dead.
  2. (rare) Religious disbelief, lack of faith.

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unwillingness to believe; doubt about the truth of something
religious disbelief
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