disbelief

noun
/dɪsbɪˈliːf/UK

Etymology

From dis- + belief.

  1. inherited from *laubō
  2. inherited from *laubu
  3. derived from lēafa
  4. inherited from bileve
  5. prefixed as disbelief — “dis + belief

Definitions

  1. 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.
  2. Astonishment.

    • I stared in disbelief at the Grand Canyon.
  3. 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

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.

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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.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA