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Incredulity vs Gawpingly - What's the difference?

incredulity | gawpingly |

As a noun incredulity

is unwillingness or inability to believe; doubt about the truth or verisimilitude of something; disbelief.

As an adverb gawpingly is

with a gawping expression, as of incredulity.

incredulity

English

Noun

(-)
  • Unwillingness or inability to believe; doubt about the truth or verisimilitude of something; disbelief.
  • * 1916 , Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar , ch. 24:
  • Wide went her eyes in wonder and incredulity , as she beheld this seeming apparition risen from the dead.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
  • , chapter=8 citation , passage=It was a casual sneer, obviously one of a long line. There was hatred behind it, but of a quiet, chronic type, nothing new or unduly virulent, and he was taken aback by the flicker of amazed incredulity that passed over the younger man's ravaged face.}}
  • (rare) Religious disbelief, lack of faith.
  • Synonyms

    * incredulousness

    Antonyms

    * credulity

    gawpingly

    English

    Adverb

    (en adverb)
  • With a gawping expression, as of incredulity.
  • * 1991 , John Waters, Jiving at the crossroads
  • A big black car flashed through the Main Street, causing passersby to swivel gawpingly around.