agnosticism

  • 11agnosticism — [[t]ægnɒ̱stɪsɪzəm[/t]] N UNCOUNT Agnosticism is the belief that it is not possible to say definitely whether or not there is a God. Compare atheism …

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  • 12agnosticism — agnostic ► NOUN ▪ a person who believes that nothing can be known concerning the existence of God. ► ADJECTIVE ▪ relating to agnostics. DERIVATIVES agnosticism noun …

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  • 13agnosticism — noun 1. a religious orientation of doubt; a denial of ultimate knowledge of the existence of God agnosticism holds that you can neither prove nor disprove God s existence • Hypernyms: ↑religious orientation 2. the disbelief in any claims of… …

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  • 14agnosticism — noun see agnostic I …

    New Collegiate Dictionary

  • 15agnosticism — The view that some proposition is not known, and perhaps cannot be known to be true or false. The term is particularly applied to theological doctrines …

    Philosophy dictionary

  • 16agnosticism — Synonyms and related words: Humism, Pyrrhonism, atheism, blankmindedness, callowness, denial, disbelief, discredit, doubt, empty headedness, greenhornism, greenness, heresy, hiatus of learning, ignorance, ignorantism, ignorantness, inability to… …

    Moby Thesaurus

  • 17AGNOSTICISM —    the doctrine which disclaims all knowledge of the supersensuous, or denies that we know or can know the absolute, the infinite, or God …

    The Nuttall Encyclopaedia

  • 18agnosticísm — s. n. (sil. mf. a ) …

    Romanian orthography

  • 19agnosticism — (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) n. freethinking, disbelief, faithlessness, doubting, closed mindedness, skepticism, atheism. Simply means that a man shall not say he knows or believes that for which he has no grounds for professing to believe. Thomas… …

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  • 20AGNOSTICISM —    the doctrine that all knowledge of such entities as a divine BEING, IMMORTALITY, and a supernatural world is impossible. The word is attributed to the nineteenth century SKEPTIC, T. H. HUXLEY and is used by people who wish to avoid professing… …

    Concise dictionary of Religion