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Not the absence of faith, just faith parked in the opposite direction.
means A lack or rejection of belief, especially religious faith — the deliberate state of not accepting something as true.
from Built plainly in English from the negative prefix 'un-' plus 'belief,' itself from Old English 'belyfan' (to hold dear, to trust). The word surfaces in Middle English religious writing, often used in Bible translations to describe willful doubt rather than mere ignorance — unbelief as a stance, not a vacancy.
- not atheism
- can coexist with belief in something else entirely
- etymology
- old english unbelyfe, literally the undoing of trust
- religious usage
- often means doubt despite evidence, not lack of it
- psychology
- requires as much mental commitment as belief does