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incredulity
/ˌɪnkɹəˈdulɪti/
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What does incredulity mean?
noun
- Unwillingness or inability to believe; doubt about the truth or verisimilitude of something; disbelief.
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noun
- (rare) Religious disbelief; lack of faith.
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IPA pronunciation
/ˌɪnkɹəˈdulɪti/
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His face assumed an expression of incredulity as he gazed, and he passed his boney hand over his eyes.
The publication of Edison's discovery created considerable attention at the time, calling forth a storm of general ridicule and incredulity.
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“What! is there more? But I will not believe it to be anything important. I warn you of incredulity beforehand. Go on.”
It was not only received with utter incredulity as regarded itself, but threw a doubt on all the assurances that had preceded it.
This is one of the points of Plato's story which provoked the incredulity and ridicule of the ancient, and even of the modern, world.