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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
disbelief
    n 1: doubt about the truth of something [syn: incredulity,
         disbelief, skepticism, mental rejection]
    2: a rejection of belief [syn: unbelief, disbelief] [ant:
       belief]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Disbelief \Dis*be*lief"\, n.
   The act of disbelieving;; a state of the mind in which one is
   fully persuaded that an opinion, assertion, or doctrine is
   not true; refusal of assent, credit, or credence; denial of
   belief.
   [1913 Webster]

         Our belief or disbelief of a thing does not alter the
         nature of the thing.                     --Tillotson.
   [1913 Webster]

         No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own
         littleness that disbelief in great men.  --Carlyle.

   Syn: Distrust; unbelief; incredulity; doubt; skepticism. --
        Disbelief, Unbelief. Unbelief is a mere failure to
        admit; disbelief is a positive rejection. One may be an
        unbeliever in Christianity from ignorance or want of
        inquiry; a unbeliever has the proofs before him, and
        incurs the guilt of setting them aside. Unbelief is
        usually open to conviction; disbelief is already
        convinced as to the falsity of that which it rejects.
        Men often tell a story in such a manner that we regard
        everything they say with unbelief. Familiarity with the
        worst parts of human nature often leads us into a
        disbelief in many good qualities which really exist
        among men.
        [1913 Webster]

Thesaurus Results for Disbelief:

1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
agnosticism, atheism, confutability, contestability, controvertibility, deism, deniability, denial, discredit, disputability, doubt, doubtfulness, dubiety, dubiousness, dubitancy, faithlessness, heresy, inability to believe, incredulity, infidelity, minimifidianism, misbelief, nonbelief, nullifidianism, questionableness, refutability, rejection, repudiation, secularism, spurning, unbelief, unbelievingness
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