doubt
Lack of certainty
Doubt is uncertainty about whether something is true, will happen, or is the right choice.
To doubt is to question or disbelieve: I doubt he's telling the truth.
A doubt is an instance of such uncertainty: I have my doubts about this plan.
Beyond a reasonable doubt is the legal standard for criminal conviction.
No doubt concedes a point or expresses near-certainty: No doubt you're right.
To give someone the benefit of the doubt is to trust them despite uncertainty.
Lack of faith
- distrustAbsence of confidence
- warinessCautious distrust
- misgivingUneasy feeling of doubt
- skepticismDisposition toward doubt
cynicism · disbelief · incredulity · qualm · reservation · apprehension · unease · discredit
Uncertainty about oneself
- confidenceSelf-assurance or trust
- hesitancyUnwillingness to proceed
- inadequacyState of being insufficient
- self-questioningProbing one's own thoughts
self-distrust · anxiety · undermining · second-guessing · diffidence · timidity · uncertainty · self-sabotage
Openness to multiple interpretations
- vaguenessAbsence of precision
- unpredictabilityState resisting forecasts
- indecisionFailure to decide
- equivocationAmbiguous language avoiding commitment
obscurity · imprecision · tentativeness · nebulousness · perplexity · puzzlement · unsettledness · cloudiness
Temporary cessation of activity
- waverHesitate or fluctuate
- vacillateWaver between choices
- falterLose momentum or steadiness
- ditherNervous inability to choose
stall · reluctance · indecisiveness · oscillate · fluctuate · teeter · equivocate · ambivalence
Trust held as true
- agnosticismDoubt about divine existence
- apostasyRenunciation of former beliefs
- crisisDecisive dangerous moment
- reassuranceWords meant to calm
conviction · certainty · atheism · questioning · spiritual · existential · Thomas · trust
mistrust
Lack of faith
skepticism · cynicism · disbelief · incredulity · qualm · reservation · apprehension · unease · discredit · credibility
insecurity
Uncertainty about oneself
- confidenceSelf-assurance or trust
- hesitancyUnwillingness to proceed
- inadequacyState of being insufficient
self-questioning · self-distrust · anxiety · undermining · second-guessing · diffidence · timidity · uncertainty · self-sabotage · underestimating
ambiguity
Openness to multiple interpretations
- vaguenessAbsence of precision
- unpredictabilityState resisting forecasts
- indecisionFailure to decide
equivocation · obscurity · imprecision · tentativeness · nebulousness · perplexity · puzzlement · unsettledness · cloudiness · haziness
pause
Temporary cessation of activity
dither · stall · reluctance · indecisiveness · oscillate · fluctuate · teeter · equivocate · ambivalence · second-guess
belief
Trust held as true
- agnosticismDoubt about divine existence
- apostasyRenunciation of former beliefs
- crisisDecisive dangerous moment
reassurance · conviction · certainty · atheism · questioning · spiritual · existential · Thomas · trust · leap
- feelingsemotion, feeling, pleasure, joy, anger
- abstract conceptsparadox, emotions, justice, truth, beauty
- belieffaith, belief, belief systems, creed, dogma
- confusionconfusion, confused, bewilderment, perplexity, baffled
- doubtskepticism, mistrust, suspicion, distrust, disbelief
- emotional statesgrief, hope, despair, jealousy, trust
- no doubtCertainly, very probably
- without a doubtWith complete certainty
- room for doubtGrounds for skepticism
- double checkVerify a second time
- double standardUnequally applied moral code
- double dateCouples' shared outing
double, doubtful, doubting, doubts, undoubtedly, doubtless, doubter, doubted, undoubted