Disbelief vs Wonder - What's the difference?
disbelief | wonder |
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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Something that causes amazement or awe; a marvel.
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Someone very talented at something, a genius.
The sense or emotion which can be inspired by something curious or unknown; surprise; astonishment.
* (Plato), TheƦtetus (section 155d)
* Bible, (w) iii. 10
* 1781 , (Samuel Johnson), The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets
(UK, informal) A mental pondering, a thought.
* 1934 , Katharine Tynan, The house of dreams
To be affected with surprise or admiration; to be struck with astonishment; to be amazed; to marvel.
* (Jonathan Swift), (w, Gulliver's Travels)
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, passage=The Celebrity, by arts unknown, induced Mrs. Judge Short and two other ladies to call at Mohair on an afternoon when Mr. Cooke was trying a trotter on the track. The three returned wondering and charmed with Mrs. Cooke; they were sure she had had no hand in the furnishing of that atrocious house.}}
To ponder; to feel doubt and curiosity; to wait with uncertain expectation; to query in the mind.
* (William Shakespeare)
As nouns the difference between disbelief and wonder
is that disbelief is unpreparedness, unwillingness, or inability to believe that something is the case while wonder is one of the.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.
Synonyms
* incredulityReferences
* * *wonder
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Noun
(en noun)Mr. Pratt's Patients, passage=That concertina was a wonder in its way. The handles that was on it first was wore out long ago, and he'd made new ones of braided rope yarn. And the bellows was patched in more places than a cranberry picker's overalls.}}
- Socrates: I see, my dear Theaetetus, that Theodorus had a true insight into your nature when he said that you were a philosopher, for wonder' is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in ' wonder . He was not a bad genealogist who said that Iris (the messenger of heaven) is the child of Thaumas (wonder).
- They were filled with wonder and amazement at that which had happened unto him.
- All wonder is the effect of novelty upon ignorance.
- Miss Paynter had a little wonder as to whether the man, as she called Mr. Lacy in her own mind, had ever been admitted to this room. She thought not.
Derived terms
* bewonder * boy wonder * girl wonder * gutless wonder * little wonder * nine day wonder * no wonder * one hit wonder * * small wonder * Wonder Woman * wonderberry * wonderboy * wonderbra * wonderchild * wonderdrug * wonderful * wonderland * wonderment * wondrous, wonderous * wonderworker * work wondersVerb
(en verb)- I could not sufficiently wonder at the intrepidity of these diminutive mortals.
- We cease to wonder at what we understand.
- I wonder , in my soul, / What you would ask me, that I should deny.