suspension of disbelief
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.37 in modern English
32
Scrabble Score
21
Letters
5
Syllables
11
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The acceptance of people, for the sake of appreciation of art (including literature and the like), of what they know to be a nonfactual premise of the work of art.
Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "In science fiction films, suspension of disbelief is essential."
- "On the other hand, Chikamatsu could induce a suspension of disbelief with the same means, thus producing an effect of reality within basic unreality. (The suspension of disbelief is, of course, nothing new to Western audiences.)"
- "All films require "suspension of disbelief" to work effectively. And every film creates its own unspoken rules to accomplish this."
- "Characters are either rich, comfortable, or struggling, but we rarely know how rich, how comfortable, or how much they struggle in concrete-enough terms to relate to. Money is involved in every important decision in one’s life; TV characters simply frown at a bank statement or gasp at a hidden figure on a piece of paper. The topic of money requires the most awkward suspension of disbelief in fiction."