Incredulity

Noun

 * 1) Unwillingness or inability to believe; doubt about the truth or verisimilitude of something; disbelief.
 * 2) * 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.
 * 1)  Religious disbelief, lack of faith.

Adjectives for Incredulity
concealed; total; impertinent; angry; pathetic; complete; petulant; polite.

Verbs for Incredulity
arouse—; convert to—; display—; dispose to —; expose to—; ignore—; incur —; indicate —; prompt—; receive with—; remove—; study with—; —distresses; —irks; —robs; —vexes.

Thesaurus for Incredulity
Humism, Pyrrhonism, agnosticism, atheism, denial, disbelief, discredit, doubt, heresy, inability to believe, infidelity, minimifidianism, misbelief, nonbelief, nullifidianism, rejection, scoffing, skepticism, unbelief, unbelievingness, unfaith

Etymology of Incredulity
Attested since 1430. From incredulité:, from  incredulitas:, from incredulus: + -itas:

Synonyms of Incredulity

 * incredulousness

Antonyms of Incredulity

 * credulity

Related terms of Incredulity

 * incredibility
 * incredulous

Translations of Incredulity

 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * German: Ungläubigkeit


 * Romanian: incredulitate, scepticism
 * Spanish: incredulidad
 * Swedish: misstrogenhet


 * Dutch: ongelovigheid
 * French: incrédulité
 * German: Ungläubigkeit


 * Romanian: necredință
 * Spanish: incredulidad