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15
apostasy(noun, failure, approach, doubt, uncertainty)
9
renunciation(noun, doubt, uncertainty, reservation)
5
heresy(noun, deviation, reconsideration, unorthodoxy)
5
rejection(noun, failure, doubt, uncertainty, failing)
5
repudiation(noun, failure, doubt, uncertainty, failing)
3
abnegation(noun, doubt, uncertainty, reservation)
3
denial(noun, doubt, uncertainty, reservation)
3
faithlessness(noun, failure, doubt, uncertainty, failing)
2
deviation
2
divergence(noun, doubt, uncertainty, error)
2
problem(noun, doubt, uncertainty, reservation)
2
schism(noun, doubt, uncertainty, error)
1
agnosticism(noun, doubt, uncertainty, error)
1
atheism(noun, doubt, uncertainty, error)
1
blasphemy(noun, doubt, uncertainty, error)
1
disbelief(noun, doubt, uncertainty, error)
1
dissidence(noun, doubt, uncertainty, error)
1
error(noun, doubt, uncertainty, deviation)
1
fallacy(noun, doubt, uncertainty, error)
1
heterodoxy(noun, doubt, uncertainty, error)
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