Agnosticism

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  • noun. The doctrine that certainty about first principles or absolute truth is unattainable and that only perceptual phenomena are objects of exact knowledge.
  • noun. The belief that the existence or nonexistence of a deity or deities cannot be known with certainty.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. The doctrines of the agnostics; the doctrine that the ultimate cause and the essential nature of tilings are unknowable, or at least unknown.
  • noun. Belief in the doctrines of the agnostics.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. That doctrine which, professing ignorance, neither asserts nor denies.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. The view that absolute truth or ultimate certainty is unattainable, especially regarding knowledge not based on experience or perceivable phenomena.
  • noun. The view that the existence of God or of all deities is unknown, unknowable, unproven, or unprovable.
  • noun. Doubt, uncertainty, or scepticism regarding the existence of a god or gods.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. the disbelief in any claims of ultimate knowledge
  • noun. a religious orientation of doubt; a denial of ultimate knowledge of the existence of God
    • Form
    agnostic  
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    disbelief  religious orientation  unbelief  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    Protestantism  atheism  deism  determinism  dualism  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    Humism  Pyrrhonism  atheism  blankmindedness  callowness  
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