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disbelief

[dis-bi-leef]

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noun

the inability or refusal to believe or to accept something as true.

amazement; astonishment: We stared at the Taj Mahal in disbelief.

Origin:
1665–75; dis-¹ + belief

Can be confused: disbelief, misbelief, unbelief.

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She has apologized for that statement, which must have been uttered in a moment of disbelief.

McCallie, perhaps in disbelief of his unwelcome notoriety.

From disagreement to disbelief to hopefulness and everything in between, predictions are.

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She has apologized for that statement, which must have been uttered in a moment of disbelief.

McCallie, perhaps in disbelief of his unwelcome notoriety.

From disagreement to disbelief to hopefulness and everything in between, predictions are.

Halloween is the one holiday that asks people to suspend disbelief.

Belief, disbelief and uncertainty generate different neural pathways in the brain.

Several people expressed disbelief and fired off questions to help them make sense of it.

Suddenly you're torn out of your suspension of disbelief by a character, mounting up for a.

Many colleagues are watching such experiments with a mix of curiosity and disbelief to see how the professors land.

If he woke up now, he would rub his eyes in disbelief at how little.

Everyone there was still in various states of shock and disbelief.

Westin argues that the distrust stems from consumers disbelief of the value proposition offered by marketers.

He recalls the president's stunned disbelief when he told him that he could run up more debt than all his predecessors combined.

We need to stop the disbelief and denial, concentrating our efforts instead on proper diagnosis and treatment.

Levine wanted the technical content to sound real, so it would suspend the disbelief of his audience.

Then there are the rules that are more annoying because the bar at which one has to suspend disbelief is raised even higher.

And the kids, huddling around the little smoking fire of cow chips will shake their heads in disbelief.

In some ways, it's nearly as jarring a disconnect as enduring disbelief in evolution or carbon dating.

Two old men watched the spectacle shaking their heads in disbelief.

Ya'll have done a marvelous job in allowing us to suspend disbelief and enter a world outside our own individual realities.

Boll seems out to shock his audience into stunned disbelief rather than actually entertain them.

But the lasting effect will be extreme skepticism and disbelief amongst all owners of capital.

It really does not take a lot of gee-whiz suspension of disbelief.

Standing there with your arms out feels a little odd at first, but is soon forgotten as disbelief is happily suspended.

Similar to fractional reserve banking, it requires a bit of suspension of disbelief in order to work.

Suspend disbelief for a moment and imagine that you have agreed, as a secret agent in some confidential military.

Thus, the multiverse theory requires as much suspension of disbelief as any religion.

The entire econo-political blogosphere is eerily silent, perhaps in disbelief of the lack of substance.

They destroyed years of data which raises credibility questions immediately and makes disbelief in their conclusions appropriate.

Everybody's suspension of disbelief is running full tilt.

As with any development/advancement in technology, there will be levels of scepticism, disbelief and mistrust.

Religions are different in that they require uncritical suspension of disbelief and suppress critical thinkers.

They often shook their heads in disbelief or openly mocked his ongoing testimony.

Until you perform the experiment for yourself there is only belief or disbelief.

When you write a screenplay, you need to create a character that people suspend their disbelief for.

Seriously, the belief vs disbelief debate will continue ad infinitum.

The announcement was met with disbelief and envy from the music industry and game companies alike.

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World English Dictionary

disbelief (ˌdɪsbɪˈliːf)

—n
	refusal or reluctance to believe

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disbelief

1670s, from dis- + belief.

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