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unbelief
CIDE DICTIONARY
unbelief, n. [Pref. un- not + belief: cf. AS. ungele.].
- The withholding of belief; doubt; incredulity; skepticism. [1913 Webster]
- Disbelief; especially, disbelief of divine revelation, or in a divine providence or scheme of redemption. [1913 Webster]"Blind unbelief is sure to err,
And scan his work in vain." [1913 Webster]
Syn. -- See Disbelief.
OXFORD DICTIONARY
unbelief, n. lack of belief, esp. in religious matters.
Derivative
unbeliever n. unbelieving adj. unbelievingly adv. unbelievingness n.
THESAURUS
unbelief
apprehension, atheism, disbelief, distrust, doubt, dubiety, faithlessness, gentilism, incredulity, infidelity, minimifidianism, misgiving, mistrust, nullifidianism, qualm, secularism, skepticism, suspicion, unbelievingness, uncertainty, unfaithROGET THESAURUS
unbelief
Irreligion
N irreligion, indevotion, godlessness, ungodliness, laxity, quietism, skepticism, doubt, unbelief, disbelief, incredulity, incredulousness, want of faith, want of belief, pyrrhonism, bout, agnosticism, atheism, deism, hylotheism, materialism, positivism, nihilism, infidelity, freethinking, antichristianity, rationalism, neology, atheist, skeptic, unbeliever, deist, infidel, pyrrhonist, giaour, heathen, alien, gentile, Nazarene, espri fort, freethinker, latitudinarian, rationalist, materialist, positivist, nihilist, agnostic, somatist, theophobist, irreligious, indevout, undevout, devoutless, godless, graceless, ungodly, unholy, unsanctified, unhallowed, atheistic, without God, skeptical, freethinking, unbelieving, unconverted, incredulous, faithless, lacking faith, deistical, unchristian, antichristian, worldly, mundane, earthly, carnal, worldly minded, irreligiously.Doubt
N unbelief doubt, unbelief, disbelief, misbelief, discredit, miscreance, infidelity, dissent, change of opinion, retraction, doubt, skepticism, scepticism, misgiving, demure, distrust, mistrust, cynicism, misdoubt, suspicion, jealousy, scruple, qualm, onus probandi, incredibility, incredibleness, incredulity, doubter, skeptic, cynic, unbeliever, unbelieving, skeptical, sceptical, incredulous as to, skeptical as to, distrustful as to, shy as to, suspicious of, doubting, doubtful, disputable, unworthy of, undeserving of belief, questionable, suspect, suspicious, open to suspicion, open to doubt, staggering, hard to believe, incredible, unbelievable, not to be believed, inconceivable, impossible, fallible, undemonstrable, controvertible, cum grano salis, with a grain of salt, with grains of allowance, fronti nulla fides, nimium ne crede colori, timeo Danaos et dona ferentes, I fear the Greeks even when bearing gifts, beware of Greeks bearing gifts, credat Judaeus Apella, let those believe who may, ad tristem partem stenua est suspicio.Also see definition of "unbelief" in Bible Study Dictionaries
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