disbelief
noun/dɪsbɪˈliːf/UK
Etymology
Definitions
An unpreparedness, unwillingness, or an inability to believe that something is the case.
- She cried out in disbelief on hearing that terrorists had crashed an airplane into the World Trade Center in New York City.
Astonishment.
- I stared in disbelief at the Grand Canyon.
The loss or abandonment of a belief
The loss or abandonment of a belief; the cessation of belief.
- There is an agony of suffering in that lingering doubt which haunts the human soul in the beginnings of disbelief.
- No adolescent can achieve disbelief in the stork without an eruption of young oaths and cynicisms.
- His later left-wing films prevented any pure and strong emotional attachment between the two sexes from gaining narrative momentum, which might reflect his gradual disbelief in romantic love.
The neighborhood
- synonymincredulity
- antonymbelief
- neighbormisbelief
- neighborunbelief
- neighbordisbelieve
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at disbelief. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at disbelief. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
10 hops · closes at disbelief
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
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