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usually uncountable, plural incredulities
Unwillingness or inability to believe; doubt about the truth or verisimilitude of something; disbelief. quotations examples
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
At any other time Jessamy would have laughed at the expressions that chased each other over his freckled face: crossness left over from his struggle with the baby; incredulity; distress; and finally delight.
1967, Barbara Sleigh, Jessamy, Sevenoaks, Kent: Bloomsbury, published 1993, page 122
(rare) Religious disbelief, lack of faith.