acatalepsy

/eɪˈkæ.tə.lɛp.si/

EꞮKÆ · tə · lɛp · si (4 syllables)

English Noun

Definition

Incomprehensibility of things; the doctrine held by the ancient skeptic philosophers, that human knowledge never amounts to certainty, but only to probability.

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ἀ- (a-) + καταλαμβάνειν (katalambánein, “to seize”).