incredulity

Roget category 487

4. Words relating to the intellectual faculties
› 4.5. Results of reasoning
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#487. Incredulity

noun

incredulousness^†, incredulity — skepticism, pyrrhonism^† — want of faith etc. (irreligion) 989^†.
suspiciousness etc. adj. — scrupulosity — suspicion etc. (unbelief) 485.
mistrust, cynicism.
unbeliever, skeptic, cynic — misbeliever.
1, pyrrhonist — heretic etc. (heterodox) 984.

verb

be incredulous etc. adj. — distrust etc. (disbelieve) 485 — refuse to believe — shut one's eyes to, shut one's ears to — turn a deaf ear to — hold aloof, ignore, nullis jurare in verba magistri [Lat.].

adjective

incredulous, skeptical, unbelieving, inconvincible^† — hard of belief, shy of belief, disposed to doubt, indisposed to believe — suspicious, scrupulous, distrustful, cynical —

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