disbelief

CEFRB1

/dɪsbɪˈliːf/

noun

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In plain English

01
noun
A feeling of not believing something is true.
02
noun
Extra detail
The loss or abandonment of a belief; the cessation of belief.

Examples

At a glance

Sits at B1 on the CEFR scale

Deep Dive

Extra meaning

An unpreparedness, unwillingness, or an inability to believe that something is the case.

In context

Tom and Mary stared at each other in disbelief.
I stared in disbelief at the Grand Canyon.
She cried out in disbelief on hearing that terrorists had crashed an airplane into the World Trade Center in New York City.

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There is an agony of suffering in that lingering doubt which haunts the human soul in the beginnings of disbelief.
1885, H. J. Hardwicke, “The God Idea”, in The Agnostic: A Monthly Journal of Liberal Thought, volume 1, page 239
No adolescent can achieve disbelief in the stork without an eruption of young oaths and cynicisms.
1927, Gilbert W. Gabriel, “Male, Female and American Drama”, in Vanity Fair, volume 27, number 4, page 73
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.
2002, Laikwan Pang, Building a New China in Cinema: The Chinese Left-wing Cinema Movement, 1932-1937, →ISBN, page 99
Just like the disbelief in Santa Claus happens gradually, I wondered if it was similar for people leaving their faith.
2012, Gloria Neufeld Redekop, Bad Girls and Boys Go to Hell (or not): Engaging Fundamentalist Evangelicalism, →ISBN, page 246

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From dis- + belief.