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suspension of disbelief

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Main Entry:  suspension of disbelief
Part of Speech:  phr
Definition:  a willingness to suspend one's critical faculties and believe the unbelievable; sacrifice of realism and logic for the sake of enjoyment
Etymology:  coined by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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