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Uncertainty vs Disbelief - What's the difference?

uncertainty | disbelief |

As nouns the difference between uncertainty and disbelief

is that uncertainty is doubt; the condition of being uncertain or without conviction while disbelief is unpreparedness, unwillingness, or inability to believe that something is the case.

uncertainty

English

Noun

  • (uncountable) Doubt; the condition of being uncertain or without conviction.
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  • , title= Tottenham 1-2 Norwich , passage=After spending so much of the season looking upwards, the swashbuckling style and swagger of early season Spurs was replaced by uncertainty and frustration against a Norwich side who had the quality and verve to take advantage}}
  • (countable) Something uncertain or ambiguous.
  • (uncountable, mathematics) A parameter that measures the dispersion of a range of measured values.
  • Antonyms

    * certainty

    disbelief

    English

    Noun

  • Unpreparedness, unwillingness, or inability to believe that something is the case.
  • She cried out in disbelief on hearing that terrorists had crashed an airplane into the World Trade Center in New York City.
  • Astonishment.
  • I stared in disbelief at the Grand Canyon.
  • The loss or abandonment of a belief; cessation of belief.
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  • Synonyms

    * incredulity

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