incredulityn.
/ɪnkrɪˈdjuːlɪti/ 1. A disbelieving frame of mind; unreadiness or unwillingness to believe (statements, etc.); disbelief.
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the mind > mental capacity > belief > disbelief, incredulity > [noun] > state of
incredulity1430
inconvictedness1664
inconviction1664
inconvincibility1882
incredibility1882
credibility gap1962
1430 J. Lydgate St. Margarete 249 And fynal cause of thi mortal distresse Is thi wilful incredulite.
c1460 in Pol. Rel. & L. Poems 112 Gayne thomas Indes incredulite.
1553 R. Eden in tr. S. Münster Treat. Newe India Pref. sig. aavv The sodeyn straungenes..shal not..gender in thee incredulitie [printed incrudelitie].
1672 Bp. J. Wilkins Of Princ. Nat. Relig. ii. ix. (R.) There is nothing so wild and extravagant, to which men may not expose themselves by such a kind of nice and scrupulous incredulity.
a1739 C. Jarvis tr. M. de Cervantes Don Quixote (1742) II. i. xiv. 65 Here is my sword, which shall make incredulity itself believe.
1763 H. Walpole Vertue's Anecd. Painting III. i. 38 The altar-piece in the chapel is the best piece I ever saw of his; the subject, the incredulity of St. Thomas.
1870 C. Dickens Edwin Drood vii. 43 Mr. Crisparkle looked in his face, with some incredulity.
1871 B. Jowett in tr. Plato Dialogues I. 175 The greatness of their professions does arouse in his mind a temporary incredulity.
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society > faith > aspects of faith > theism > atheism > [noun]
unbeliefc1160
wantruthc1175
mislevea1200
doubta1225
untrothc1380
untruthc1380
unreligiositya1382
irreligiosity1382
unbelieffulnessc1384
unfaithfulness1388
unbelievinga1400
unfaith1415
wanbelevenessc1440
wanbelievingc1440
wantrowinga1450
wanbelevea1470
mistruthc1480
infidelity1509
incredulity1532
atheonismc1534
unbelievingness1561
irreligiousness?1577
faithlessness1579
unreligiousness1579
atheism1587
scruple1600
discredence1627
doubtinga1628
disbelieving1645
atheisticalness1654
diffidelity1659
disbelief1672
atheisticness1691
nothingism1755
scepticism1800
nihilisma1817
infidelisma1834
nothingarianism1842
agnosticism1870
disfaith1870
no-Goddism1931
1532 T. More Confut. Tyndale in Wks. 713/1 Nor no sinne can damne him but onely incredulitie, that is to say lacke of beliefe.
1560 J. Knox et al. Buke Discipline in J. Knox Wks. (1848) II. 250 Everie one that dyeth, departeth eather in the fayth of Christ..or..in incredulitie.
1622 R. Sanderson Two Serm. Boston i. 7 When the Faith of a true beleeuer is sore shaken with temptations of incredulity and distrust.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > belief > disbelief, incredulity > [noun] > something unbelievable > state of being unbelievable
uncredibility1486
intestability1590
incredulity1607
incredibleness1611
incredibility1613
unbelievability1851
1607 G. Markham Cavelarice iii. 3 Others tell vs other tales of as much incredulitie, of the Horses of Scithia, Greece, and Barbarie.
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