Word.ws English Dictionary

incredulity

/ˌɪnkɹɪˈdjuːlɪti/

incredulity noun: unwillingness or inability to believe; doubt about the truth or verisimilitude of something; disbelief.

Noun

incredulity (usually uncountable, plural incredulities)

  1. (usually) Unwillingness or inability to believe; doubt about the truth or verisimilitude of something; disbelief.
    • Wide went her eyes in wonder and incredulity, as she beheld this seeming apparition risen from the dead.1916, Edgar Rice Burroughs, chapter 24, in Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar
    • It was a casual sneer, obviously one of a long line. There was hatred behind it, but of a quiet, chronic type, nothing new or unduly virulent, and he was taken aback by the flicker of amazed incredulity that passed over the younger man's ravaged face.1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 8, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC
  2. (rare, usually) Religious disbelief; lack of faith.

incredulity meaning in Tamil and Malayalam

incredulity in Tamil

நம்பாமை, ஐயுறவு, அவநம்பிக்கை

incredulity in Malayalam

disbelief, distrust, incredulous-ness
അവിശ്വസനീയത, സംശയം, സന്ദേഹം, വിശ്വാസശങ്ക, അപ്രത്യയം, അവിശ്വാസം

Synonyms of incredulity

Antonyms

Forms of incredulity

pluralincredulities

Origin of incredulity

Attested since 1430. From Middle English incredulite, from Old French incredulité, from Late Latin incredulitas, from Latin incredulus (“unbelieving”) + -itas (“-ity”), equivalent to incredulous + -ity.

Questions about incredulity

What does incredulity mean?
Incredulity means unwillingness or inability to believe; doubt about the truth or verisimilitude of something; disbelief.
What is incredulity in Tamil?
Incredulity in Tamil is நம்பாமை, ஐயுறவு, அவநம்பிக்கை. See Incredulity meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is incredulity?
Incredulity is a noun.
How do you pronounce incredulity?
Incredulity is pronounced /ˌɪnkɹɪˈdjuːlɪti/.
What is the plural of incredulity?
The plural of incredulity is incredulities.

Words near incredulity in the dictionary

  1. incredibubble
  2. increditable
  3. incredited
  4. increds
  5. incredulities
  6. incredulity
  7. incredulosity
  8. incredulous
  9. incredulously
  10. incredulousness
  11. increep

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: incredulity (page history and authors); incredulity (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); incredulity (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Pronunciation audio from Wikimedia Commons, each file under its own free license: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-incredulity.wav.

Cite this entry: “incredulity.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/incredulity. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.