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suspension of disbelief

noun

Etymology

Coined by English poet, literary critic and philosopher Samuel Taylor Coleridge in 1817.

  1. derived from poet

Definitions

  1. The acceptance of people, for the sake of appreciation of art (including literature and…

    The acceptance of people, for the sake of appreciation of art (including literature and the like), of what they know to be a nonfactual premise of the work of art.

    • In science fiction films, suspension of disbelief is essential.
    • On the other hand, Chikamatsu could induce a suspension of disbelief with the same means, thus producing an effect of reality within basic unreality. (The suspension of disbelief is, of course, nothing new to Western audiences.)
    • All films require "suspension of disbelief" to work effectively. And every film creates its own unspoken rules to accomplish this.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for suspension of disbelief. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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