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I made an edit to my comment just around the time you posted your reply, just fyi I don't want to be sneaky or anything.
Huh, I always took atheist to be the complement of theist, not to be confused with the opposition. So because I'm a math guy: atheist = NOT(theist). For example, theist: "I believe in a god", atheist: "I'm not with this guy", antitheist: "Your god is fake, there is no god, it's impossible".
I'll be real with you I did not and have no intentions of reading this whole thing, but sections 1 and 2 is relevant to this discussion: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/atheism-agnosticism/
It mentions both of our definitions of atheism - not having belief and having belief against god - and where they came from and arguments for or against them, but they do seem to lean toward yours, the "philosophical" definition as they call it
You are correct, and I should have worded my example differently.
They lack the belief (as opposed to active disbelief).