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usually uncountable, plural disbeliefs
Unpreparedness, unwillingness, or inability to believe that something is the case. examples
Astonishment. examples
The loss or abandonment of a belief; cessation of belief. quotations examples
There is an agony of suffering in that lingering doubt which haunts the human soul in the beginnings of disbelief.
1885, H. J. Hardwicke, “The God Idea”, in The Agnostic: A Monthly Journal of Liberal Thought, volume 1, page 239
No adolescent can achieve disbelief in the stork without an eruption of young oaths and cynicisms.
1927, Gilbert W. Gabriel, “Male, Female and American Drama”, in Vanity Fair, volume 27, number 4, page 73
His later left-wing films prevented any pure and strong emotional attachment between the two sexes from gaining narrative momentum, which might reflect his gradual disbelief in romantic love.
2002, Laikwan Pang, Building a New China in Cinema: The Chinese Left-wing Cinema Movement, 1932-1937, page 99
Just like the disbelief in Santa Claus happens gradually, I wondered if it was similar for people leaving their faith.
2012, Gloria Neufeld Redekop, Bad Girls and Boys Go to Hell (or not): Engaging Fundamentalist Evangelicalism, page 246