DOUBT  懷疑

AWARE that one does NOT KNOW OR UNDERSTAND something.
UNCERTAINTYUNSURENESSINDECISIONHESITATIONDUBIOUSNESSSUSPICIONCONFUSIONQUERIESQUESTIONSFORMAL DUBIETYINDECISIONHESITATIONUNCERTAINTYINSECURITYUNEASEUNEASINESSAPPREHENSIONHESITANCYVACILLATIONIRRESOLUTION
Antonym
  • CERTAINTRUE AND NOT being DOUBTED.
    • BELIEVEATTITUDE IN-RELATION-TO a THINK:thought to the effect that this THOUGHT is TRUE.
      Hypernym
      • AWAREABLE to VOLUNTARILY:deliberately REACT to. 
        • ABLEHAVE FEATURES one NEEDS in SELF:oneself FOR ACHIEVING something.
          • HAVERELATION to something such that it BE-IN:is in one OR is CONTROLLED by one.
            • RELATIONFEATURE of TWO OR MORE THINGS TOGETHER....
      Hyponym
      • HESITATE DOUBT HOW one SHOULD ACT AND THEREFORE NOT ACT OR MOVE.
        • SKEPTICISM DOCTRINE that one SHOULD DOUBT AND CONTINUE TO INVESTIGATE EVERYTHING.
          Old Chinese Criteria
          1. The current general word for doubting or suspecting is yí 疑 (ant. xìn 信 "have faith in"), and the connotation is always negative. Contrast Latin dubito which is often used in positive senses.

          2. Xián 嫌 refers to the suspicion that something negative may be true.

          3. Cāi 猜 can also refer to a suspicion that something is the case, and typically it refers to an attitude of suspicion which is unjustified.

          4. Yì 意 (ant. bì 必 "be certain about a matter") is to surmise as a matter of subjective and therefore doubtful judgment.

          Modern Chinese Criteria
          懷疑

          置疑

          狐疑

          嫌疑

          生疑

          起疑

          猜疑

          疑猜

          疑心

          疑團

          疑忌

          疑慮

          猜忌

          多心

          多疑

          吃心

          嘀咕

          過心

          打結



          疑神疑鬼

          疑心生暗鬼

          將信將疑

          半信半疑

          疑信參半

          rough draft to BEGIN TO identify synonym group members for analysis, based on CL etc. 18.11.2003. CH /

          • A Dictionary of Selected Synonyms in the Principal Indo-European Languages ( BUCK 1988) p. 17.43

          • Vocabulaire européen des philosophies. Dictionnaire des intraduisibles ( CASSIN 2004) p. 367

            EPOKHE

          • De Rerum Humanarum Emendatione ( COMENIUS 1665) p. 515©

            DUBITARE est qvid sentiendum aut eligendum sit, deliberando haesitare. Concurrunt 1. Res plures. 2. Nebulae illas involventes. 3. Lumen obscurum, non satis nebulas discutiens.

            Ax. Dubitatio es lucis mentalis effectus primus, tenebrarum discussion initialis.

            ...

            Error opinando non dubitando venit!

            ...

            Ax. Dubitatio est principium scientiae. Dubitare licet, ut scire liceat.

          • Lateinische Synonyme und Etymologien ( DOEDERLEIN 1840) p.

            DOUBT

            dubius, and the rarer ambiguus, refers to uncertainty with regard to the success or failure of something, or of good versus bad fortune.

            anceps refers to doubt with reference to whether something does or does not exist.

          • Anthologia sive Florilegium rerum et materiarum selectarum ( LANGIUS 1631) p.

            INCREDULITAS

          • 論衡同義詞研究 ( LUNHENG TONGYI 2004) p. 25

          • Tolkovo-kombinatornyj slovar' sovremmenogo russkogo jazyka. Explanatory Combinatorial Dictionary of Modern Russian ( Mel'cuk 1984) p. 765

          • Lateinische Synonymik ( MENGE) p. 316

          • Dictionnaire culturel en langue francaise ( REY 2005) p. 2.173

          • Historisches Woerterbuch der Philosophie ( RITTER 1971-2007) p. 12.1520

            ZWEIFEL

          • Enzyklopaedie Philosophie und Wissenschaftstheorie ( MITTELSTRASS 1996) p. 4.868

          • Chinese Synonyms Usage Dictionary ( TENG SHOU-HSIN 1996) p. 195

          • The Encyclopedia of Philosophy ( BORCHERT 2005) p.

          • Encyclopedia of Religion ( JONES 2005) p.

            DOUBT AND BELIEF

          • SYNONYMES FRANÇOIS, LEURS DIFFÉRENTES SIGNIFICATIONS, ET LE CHOIX QU'IL EN FAUT FAIRE Pour parler avec justesse ( GIRARD 1769) p. 2.277:185

            IRRESOLUTION.INCERTITUDE.PERPLEXITE

          • SYNONYMES FRANÇOIS, LEURS DIFFÉRENTES SIGNIFICATIONS, ET LE CHOIX QU'IL EN FAUT FAIRE Pour parler avec justesse ( GIRARD 1769) p. 1.272.229

            INCERTITUDE.DOUTE.IRRESOLUTION

          • 古漢語常用詞同義詞詞典 ( HONG CHENGYU 2009) p. 243

          Words

            yí OC: ŋɡɯ MC: ŋɨ 50 AttributionsWD

          The current general word for doubting or suspecting is yí 疑 (ant. xìn 信 "have faith in"), and the connotation is always negative. Contrast Latin dubito which is often used in positive senses.

            Word relations
          • Ant: 信/CERTAIN
          • Ant: 定/DECIDE Dìng 定 refers to the fixing something not only for oneself but primarily for others. See FIX

            Syntactic words
          • nabfactualpassive: what is doubted; doubtful point; doubtful situation;
          • nabpsychdoubt
          • nsubject=nonrefdoubtful matters
          • vadNdubious; doubtful
          • vadNabdoubtful pointCH
          • vi0there is doubt or uncertainty ???
          • vt(oN)putativehave one's doubts about the contextually determinate object
          • vt[oN]be doubtful (of situations), be left in doubt (of people)
          • vtoNobject=humanhave one's doubts about somebody, regard somebody as dubious
          • vtoNputativeconsider something doubtful, be in doubt about 
          • vtoSbe in doubt about whether (S often contains spurious negation)
          未審  wèi shěn OC: mɯds qhjɯmʔ MC: mɨi ɕim 10 AttributionsWD
            Syntactic words
          • VPtoSmodalnot yet investigated > I wonder (whether)... (this is a frequently used phrase in ZTJ (94 times), marking the speaker's incertainty concerning the truth-value of a proposition)
          嫌疑  xián yí OC: ɡleem ŋɡɯ MC: ɦem ŋɨ 8 AttributionsWD
            Syntactic words
          • NPabdoubt of any kind; doubtful cases of any kind MO, Xiaoqu: 決嫌疑
          • VPtoNbe in deep doubt (sometimes with preceding topicalised object)CH
            xián OC: ɡleem MC: ɦem 7 AttributionsWD

          Xián 嫌 refers to the suspicion that something negative may be true.

            Syntactic words
          • nabsubjectwhat is doubtful; doubt; uncertainty
          • vibe suspicious
          • vtoSbe in doubt whether S (SUSPICION???)
            dài OC: lɯɯʔ MC: dəi 4 AttributionsWD
            Syntactic words
          • vadVpossibly, I suspect
          • vtoNdoubt; be suspicious of (GONG)
            cāi OC: tshɯɯ MC: tshəi 4 AttributionsWD

          Cāi 猜 can also refer to a suspicion that something is the case, and typically it refers to an attitude of suspicion which is unjustified.

            Syntactic words
          • nabpsychsuspicion (ZUO)
          • vtoNdoubt (ZUO)
            què, quē OC: khod MC: khi̯ɐt 4 AttributionsWD
            Syntactic words
          • nabbeing in doubt; admitting that there is an empty spot in one's knowledgeDS
          • vi-Pactsuspend one's judgment, show doubt
          • vt[oN]suspend one's judgment on things
          • vtoNsuspend judgment on, refuse to pronounce judgment on
          不審  bù shěn OC: pɯʔ qhjɯmʔ MC: pi̯ut ɕim 4 AttributionsWD
            Syntactic words
          • VPtoSmodalnot carefully examine > I wonder... (adding a notion of doubt to interrogative sentence)
          狐疑  hú yí OC: ɡʷaa ŋɡɯ MC: ɦuo̝ ŋɨ 4 AttributionsWD
            Syntactic words
          • VPadNdoubtful, difficult to decide
          • VPiintensitivebe full of doubts
          未知  wèi zhī OC: mɯds te MC: mɨi ʈiɛ 2 AttributionsWD
            Syntactic words
          • VPt(oS)be not quite sure, suspect that not
          • VPtoNbe not quite sure that Snom
          疑網  yí wǎng OC: ŋɡɯ maŋʔ MC: ŋɨ mi̯ɐŋ 2 AttributionsWD
            Syntactic words
          • NPabpsychweb of doubts
            èr OC: njis MC: ȵi 1 AttributionWD
            Syntactic words
          • nabpsychbeing in two minds> doubt
            hú OC: ɡʷaa MC: ɦuo̝ 1 AttributionWD

            Word relations
          • Assoc: 疑/SUSPECT The standard current word for suspicion of any kind is yí 疑.

            Syntactic words
          • vt[oN]be suspicious; be doubtful
            tāo OC: kh-luu MC: thɑu 1 AttributionWD
            Syntactic words
          • vibe doubtful, be in doubtCH
          • vtoNdoubt (ZUO)
          不識  bù shí OC: pɯʔ qhljɯɡ MC: pi̯ut ɕɨk 1 AttributionWD
            Syntactic words
          • VPt[0]oSmodalgrammaticalised idiom: I wonder whether; one wonders whether
          疑惑  yí huò OC: ŋɡɯ ɡʷɯɯɡ MC: ŋɨ ɦək 1 AttributionWD
            Syntactic words
          • NPabpsychdoubts, suspicions
          疑慮  yí lǜ OC: ŋɡɯ b-ras MC: ŋɨ li̯ɤ 1 AttributionWD
            Syntactic words
          • nabpsychdoubtful thoughts> doubts
          驚疑  jīng yí OC: kreŋ ŋɡɯ MC: kɣaŋ ŋɨ 1 AttributionWD
            Syntactic words
          • VPibe full of amazed doubt
            nǐ MC: ngiX OC: ŋɡɯʔLZ 1 AttributionWD
            Syntactic words
          • vtoN= yí 疑: to doubtLZ
            tāo OC: kh-luu MC: thɑu 0 AttributionsWD
            Syntactic words
          • virare: be in doubt, be of doubtful content

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