Antonyms for credence
ˈkrid nscre·dence

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1. credence

   Belief, as an intellectual process, is the acceptance of some thing as true on other grounds than personal observation and experience. We give credence to a report, assent to a proposition or to a proposal. Belief is stronger than credence; credence might be described as a prima facie belief; credence is a more formal word than belief, and seems to imply somewhat more of volition; we speak of giving credence to a report, but not of giving belief. Goods are sold on credit; we give one credit for good intentions. Conviction is a belief established by argument or evidence; assurance is belief beyond the reach of argument; as, the Christian's assurance of salvation. An opinion is a general conclusion held as probable, tho without full certainty; a persuasion is a more confident opinion, involving the heart as well as the intellect. In religion, a doctrine is a statement of belief regarding a single point; a creed is a summary statement of doctrines. Confidence is a firm dependence upon a statement as true, or upon a person as worthy. Reliance is confidence on which we act or are ready to act unquestioningly; we have a calm reliance upon the uniformity of nature. Trust is a practical and tranquil resting of the mind upon the integrity, kindness, friendship, or promises of a person; we have trust in God. Faith is a union of belief and trust. Faith is chiefly personal; belief may be quite impersonal; we speak of belief of a proposition, faith in a promise, because the promise emanates from a person. But belief in a person is often used with no appreciable difference from faith. In religion it is common to distinguish between intellectual belief of religious truth, as any other truth might be believed, and belief of the heart, or saving faith.

   Antonyms:
   denial, disbelief, dissent, distrust, doubt, doubt, incredulity, infidelity, misgiving, rejection, skepticism, suspicion, unbelief

   Synonyms:
   assent, assurance, belief, confidence, conviction, credit, creed, doctrine, faith, opinion, reliance, trust

   Preposition:
   Have faith in God; the faith of the gospel.

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1. credence

   Antonyms:
   disbelief, distrust, denial

   Synonyms:
   belief, faith, trust, credit, confidence

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1. • Attitude
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1. credence, acceptancenoun

   the mental attitude that something is believable and should be accepted as true

   "he gave credence to the gossip"; "acceptance of Newtonian mechanics was unquestioned for 200 years"

   Synonyms:
   acceptance, adoption, sufferance, banker's acceptance, toleration, espousal, acceptation, credenza

2. credenza, credencenoun

   a kind of sideboard or buffet

   Synonyms:
   acceptance, credenza

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1. credencenoun

   Synonyms:
   belief, credit, acceptance

How to use credence in a sentence?

1. George Jean Nathan:

   The path of sound credence is through the thick forest of skepticism.

2. Bloomberg Opinions columnist Bobby Ghosh:

   Its reflective tendency to lie about crises, recently on display with the shooting down of a Ukrainian airliner, adds credence to reports that the first signs of the outbreak were evident on Feb. 13, six days before the government owned up.

3. Samuel Mehr:

   The study gives credence to the idea that there is some sort of set of governing rules for how human minds produce music worldwide. And that's something we could not really test until we had a lot of data about music from many different cultures.

4. Keechant Sewell:

   We've learned that stop and frisk is not the answer, that violence reduction can happen independent of that, and we saw that in New York over many years, so as far as... data providing credence that we should have more of those policies, I don't think there's any evidence of that.

5. Boris Johnson:

   My point was that I disagreed with the Iranian view that training journalists was a crime, not that I wanted to lend any credence to Iranian allegations that Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe had been engaged in such activity.

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