agnosticism

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Scrabble points
16
Words With Friends
20
Letters
11
Pronunciation
/æɡˈnɒstɪsɪzəm/
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/æɡˈnɒstɪsɪzəm/ · /æɡˈnɑstɪsɪzəm/

Definition of agnosticism

4 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. (countable, uncountable)The view that absolute truth or ultimate certainty is unattainable, especially regarding knowledge not based on experience or perceivable phenomena.
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noun

  1. (countable, uncountable)The view that absolute truth or ultimate certainty is unattainable, especially regarding knowledge not based on experience or perceivable phenomena.
  2. (countable, uncountable)The view that the existence of God or of all deities is unknown, unknowable, unproven, or unprovable.
    “Holonyms: epistemology, cosmology, ontology, philosophy”
  3. (countable, uncountable)Doubt, uncertainty, or scepticism regarding the existence of a god or gods.
    “1956, January 31ˢᵗ: Alan Alexander Milne; quoted in:”
    “1988: James B. Simpson, Simpson’s Contemporary Quotations, № 4,393 (Houghton Mifflin, →ISBN The Old Testament is responsible for more atheism, agnosticism, disbelief — call it what you will — than any book ever written; it has emptied more churches than all the counterattractions of cinema, motor bicycle and golf course.”
  4. (broadly, countable, uncountable)Doubt, uncertainty, or scepticism regarding any subject of dispute.

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Etymology

Coined by Thomas Henry Huxley. From a- + gnostic + -ism (see also agnostic).

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