Suspicion vs Disbelief - What's the difference?
suspicion | disbelief |
The act of suspecting something or someone, especially of something wrong.
The condition of being suspected.
Uncertainty, doubt.
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A trace, or slight indication.
* (Adolphus William Ward) (1837-1924)
The imagining of something without evidence.
(nonstandard, dialect) To suspect; to have suspicions.
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* 2012 , B. M. Bower, Cow-Country (page 195)
Unpreparedness, unwillingness, or inability to believe that something is the case.
Astonishment.
The loss or abandonment of a belief; cessation of belief.
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As nouns the difference between suspicion and disbelief
is that suspicion is the act of suspecting something or someone, especially of something wrong while disbelief is unpreparedness, unwillingness, or inability to believe that something is the case.As a verb suspicion
is (nonstandard|dialect) to suspect; to have suspicions.suspicion
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Alternative forms
* suspition (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)- In former days every tavern of repute kept such a room for its own select circle, a club, or society, of habitués, who met every evening, for a pipe and a cheerful glass.Strangers might enter the room, but they were made to feel that they were there on sufferance: they were received with distance and suspicion .
- The features are mild but expressive, with just a suspicion of saturnine or sarcastic humor.
Derived terms
* suspicious * suspect * sneaking suspicionVerb
(en verb)- Mulvaney continued— "Whin I was full awake the palanquin was set down in a street, I suspicioned , for I cud hear people passin' an' talkin'. But I knew well I was far from home.
- "I've been suspicioning here was where they got their information right along," the sheriff commented, and slipped the handcuffs on the landlord.
References
* (EtymOnLine)disbelief
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Noun
- She cried out in disbelief on hearing that terrorists had crashed an airplane into the World Trade Center in New York City.
- I stared in disbelief at the Grand Canyon.