Incredulous vs Belief - What's the difference?
incredulous | belief |
Skeptical, disbelieving, or unable to believe.
* 1918 ,
Expressing or indicative of incredulity.
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* 1601 , William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night , III.4:
* 1984 , , opinion in People v Terrell'', 459 N.E.2d 1337,
Mental acceptance of a claim as likely true.
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, title= Faith or trust in the reality of something; often based upon one's own reasoning, trust in a claim, desire of actuality, and/or evidence considered.
(countable) Something believed.
(uncountable) The quality or state of believing.
(uncountable) Religious faith.
(in the plural) One's religious or moral convictions.
As an adjective incredulous
is skeptical, disbelieving, or unable to believe.As a noun belief is
mental acceptance of a claim as likely true.incredulous
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- Xodar listened in incredulous astonishment to my narration of the events which had transpired within the arena at the rites of Issus.
- Reactions at Sun's campus, an hour's drive from San Francisco, ranged from the fearful to the incredulous .
- Why euery thing adheres togither, that no dramme of a scruple, no scruple of a scruple, no obstacle, no incredulous or vnsafe circumstance [...].
]quoted in David C. Brody, James R. Acker, and Wayne A. Logan, ''Criminal Law ,[http://books.google.com/books?id=2ipUSeStAzQC Jones & Bartlett Publishers (2001), ISBN 0-8342-1083-5, page 564,
- Faced with these facts, we find it incredulous that [the] defendant had any intent other than the armed robbery of the service station.
Derived terms
* incredulouslybelief
English
Noun
(en noun)Why I'm eating my words on veganism – again, passage=The belief that there is no conflict between [livestock] farming and arable production also seems to be unfounded: by preventing the growth of trees and other deep vegetation in the hills and by compacting the soil, grazing animals cause a cycle of flash floods and drought, sporadically drowning good land downstream and reducing the supply of irrigation water.}}