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incredulity

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Main Entry: incredulity
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: disbelief

Synonyms:

amazement, doubt, skepticism, unbelief, wonder
Main Entry: disbelief
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: doubt, skepticism

Synonyms:

atheism, distrust, dubiety, incredulity, mistrust, nihilism, rejection, repudiation, spurning, unbelief, unbelievingness, unfaith

Antonyms:

belief, trust
Main Entry: doubt
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: lack of faith, conviction; questioning

Synonyms:

agnosticism, ambiguity, apprehension, confusion, demurral, difficulty, diffidence, dilemma, disbelief, discredit, disquiet, distrust, dubiety, dubiousness, faithlessness, faltering, fear, hesitancy, hesitation, incertitude, incredulity, indecision, irresolution, lack of confidence, misgiving, mistrust, perplexity, problem, qualm, quandary, rejection, reluctance, scruple, skepticism, suspense, suspicion, uncertainty, vacillation, wavering

Antonyms:

belief, certainty, confidence, dependence, faith, reliance, trust
Main Entry: surprise
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: something amazing; state of amazement

Synonyms:

abruptness, amazement, astonishment, astoundment, attack, awe, bewilderment, bombshell, consternation, curiosity, curveball, disappointment, disillusion, epiphany, eureka, eye-opener, fortune, godsend, incredulity, jolt*, kick*, marvel, miracle, miscalculation, phenomenon, portent, precipitance, precipitation, precipitousness, prodigy, rarity, revelation, shock, start, stupefaction, suddenness, thunderbolt, unexpected, unforeseen, whammy, wonder, wonderment
Notes: amaze once meant 'alarm, terrify' but now means 'astonish'; surprise means 'meet with suddenly or without warning'

Antonyms:

expectation
Main Entry: suspicion
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: doubt

Synonyms:

bad vibes, chariness, conjecture, cynicism, distrust, dubiety, dubiosity, funny feeling, guess, guesswork, gut feeling, hunch, idea, impression, incertitude, incredulity, jealousy, lack of confidence, misgiving, mistrust, nonbelief, notion, qualm, skepticism, sneaking suspicion, supposition, surmise, uncertainty, wariness, wonder

Antonyms:

trust
Main Entry: wonder
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: amazement

Synonyms:

admiration, astonishment, awe, bewilderment, concern, confusion, consternation, curiosity, doubt, fascination, fear, incredulity, jar, jolt, marveling, perplexity, perturbation, puzzlement, reverence, shock, skepticism, start, stupefaction, stupor, surprise, suspicion, uncertainty, wondering, wonderment

Antonyms:

expectation
Main Entry: incredulousness
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: disbelief

Synonyms:

atheism, discredit, distrust, dubiety, incredulity, mistrust, nihilism, rejection, repudiation, spurning, unbelief, unbelievingness, unfaith
Main Entry: unbelief
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: disbelief

Synonyms:

atheism, discredit, distrust, dubiety, incredulity, incredulousness, mistrust, nihilism, rejection, repudiation, spurning, unbelievingness, unfaith
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Main Entry: doubt
Part of Speech: noun, verb
Related
Adjectives:
abroad, adrift, afraid to say, ambiguous, ancipitous, apocryphal, astray, at a loss, at a nonplus, at fault, at one's wit's end, at sea, casual, changeable, confused, contingent, contingent on, controvertible, debatable, deceptive, dependent on, dependent on circumstances, disputable, distracted, distraught, distrustful of, doubtful, doubting, dubious, enigmatic, equivocal, evasive, experimental, fallacious, fallible, false, fine-spun, hard to believe, hypothetical, ignorant, illusive, illusory, in a cloud, in a maze, in a state of uncertainty, in question, in suspense, inconceivable, incredible, incredulous as to, indecisive, indefinite, indeterminate, jesuitical, lost, mebby-scales, minimifidian, mystic, not to be believed, occasional, open to discussion, open to doubt, open to suspicion, oracular, out of one's reckoning, overrefined, paradoxical, perplexing, pettifogging, plausible, plausive, precarious, problematical, puzzled, questionable, quibbling, shy of, skeptical as to, slippery, sophistical, specious, staggering, subject to, suspect, suspicious, suspicious of, ticklish, unascertained, unauthentic, unauthenticated, unauthoritative, unbelieving, uncertain, unconfirmed, uncounted, undecided, undefinable, undefined, undemonstrable, undemonstrated, undeserving of belief, undetermined, unreliable, unsettled, untold, untrustworthy, unworthy of belief, vague
Main Entry: surprise
Part of Speech: noun, verb
Related
Adjectives:
anoetic, blutterbunged, ferly, gloppened, imprevisible, inattentive, inopinate, mirific, serendipitous, startling, struck, sudden, surprised, unanticipated, unaware, unexpected, unforeseen, unwarned
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