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unbeliever

Other forms: unbelievers

An unbeliever is a person who is skeptical of a particular religion. Most places of worship welcome all people, even unbelievers.

If you're not a believer — that is, if you don't believe in something — you're an unbeliever. This noun usually turns up in religious contexts, either as another word for an atheist (someone who doesn't believe in any god or deity), or simply to denote someone who isn't a follower of a certain religion. If you're a Unitarian, your devout Catholic relatives might consider you to be an unbeliever.

Definitions of unbeliever
  1. noun
    someone who refuses to believe (as in a divinity)
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    types:
    atheist
    someone who denies the existence of god
    irreligionist
    someone who is indifferent or hostile to religion
    materialist
    someone who thinks that nothing exists but physical matter
    type of:
    nonreligious person
    a person who does not manifest devotion to a deity
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