Originally posted by smittims
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One of the difficulties with some of the alternatives to incredible - 'unbelievable' or 'beyond belief' - which would be accurate in many cases, is that they can imply disbelief in the sense of untruth, to which someone might take exception.
My particular gripe, for very many years, is the misuse of 'disinterested' to mean 'uninterested'. It removes a useful and specific term from use. I've just been looking up to see if modern definitions and usage have taken over from the original and have just come across the Merriam-Webster entry which says that when first introduced the meaning of the words was the other way round. Unfortunately that doesn't mean that in modern usage that we have got back the 'unbiased' sense of the word; the two are just used interchangeably.
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