Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun Refusal or reluctance to believe.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Positive unbelief; the conviction that a proposition or statement for which credence is demanded is not true.
  • noun A negation or denial of the truth of some particular thing.
  • noun Synonyms Disbelief, Unbelief, incredulity, distrust, skepticism, infidelity. Disbelief is more commonly used to express an active mental opposition which does not imply a blameworthy disregard of evidence. Unbelief may be a simple failure to believe from lack of evidence or knowledge; but its theological use has given it also the force of wilful opposition to the truth.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun The act of disbelieving;; a state of the mind in which one is fully persuaded that an opinion, assertion, or doctrine is not true; refusal of assent, credit, or credence; denial of belief.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun Unpreparedness, unwillingness, or inability to believe that something is the case.
  • noun astonishment

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun doubt about the truth of something
  • noun a rejection of belief

Etymologies

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dis- +‎ belief

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