unbeliever
noun
Forms unbelievers
- noun One who does not believe, particularly in a deity (used by believers to describe people who do not believe in the same deity or deities as themselves).
Synonyms
Etymology
From un- + believer, perhaps a corruption of earlier wanbeliever (“unbeliever”).
Webster’s 1913
- noun One who does not believe; an incredulous person; a doubter; a skeptic.
- noun A disbeliever; especially, one who does not believe that the Bible is a divine revelation, and holds that Christ was neither a divine nor a supernatural person; an infidel; a freethinker.
Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “unbeliever”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details