Meaning

4 senses
  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

    Agnostizismus

    агностици́змagnosticízm

    агностици́змahnostycýzm

  3. (countable, uncountable)Doubt, uncertainty, or scepticism regarding the existence of a god or gods.

    1956, January 31ˢᵗ: Alan Alexander Milne; quoted in:

    a religious orientation of doubt; a denial of ultimate knowledge of the existence of God

  4. (broadly, countable, uncountable)Doubt, uncertainty, or scepticism regarding any subject of dispute.

Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
view that the existence of a God or gods is unknown, unknowable, unproven, or unprovable:
Русский
By meaning 1
view that the existence of a God or gods is unknown, unknowable, unproven, or unprovable:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
view that the existence of a God or gods is unknown, unknowable, unproven, or unprovable:

Origin

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

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

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Forms

plural: agnosticisms
Singularagnosticism
Pluralagnosticisms

regular

Synonyms

2 synonyms
Close in meaning

Antonyms

1 antonyms

Word family

7 related words

See also

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