INCREDULITY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does incredulity mean? 

• INCREDULITY (noun)
  The noun INCREDULITY has 1 sense:

1. doubt about the truth of something

  Familiarity information: INCREDULITY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• INCREDULITY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Doubt about the truth of something

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

disbelief; incredulity; mental rejection; skepticism

Hypernyms ("incredulity" is a kind of...):

doubt; doubtfulness; dubiety; dubiousness; incertitude; uncertainty (the state of being unsure of something)

Derivation:

incredulous (not disposed or willing to believe; unbelieving)

 Context examples 

I can only tell you that it was not so, that I was met at every turn by incredulity, born partly of stupidity and partly of jealousy.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“Oh, yes, I am not joking,” he continued, seeing my look of incredulity.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Again his astonishment was obvious; and he looked at her with an expression of mingled incredulity and mortification.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

And the pang of new-born jealousy put all incredulity to flight.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Even now, after this long interval, I find myself thrilling as I think of it, and feeling once more that sudden flood of joy, amazement, and incredulity which utterly submerged my mind.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I should not have intruded it upon your attention had you not shown some incredulity the other day.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Oh! the envyings and heartburnings of dozens and dozens; the wonder, the incredulity that will be felt at hearing what you have done!

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Martin emitted a long, low whistle of incredulity, then proceeded to resurrect and read a carbon copy of "The Palmist."

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

"What! is there more? But I will not believe it to be anything important. I warn you of incredulity beforehand. Go on."

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

He sneered his incredulity of the law's potency in such a region, but he merely iterated, dispassionately, doggedly, "He killed Dutchy and Harkey."

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)