agnosticism
/æɡˈnɑstɪsɪzəm/
UK: /æɡˈnɒstɪsɪzəm/
agnosticism
English
Noun
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Definition
The view that absolute truth or ultimate certainty is unattainable, especially regarding knowledge not based on experience or perceivable phenomena.
Etymology
Coined by Thomas Henry Huxley. From a- + gnostic + -ism (see also agnostic).
Example Sentences
- "Holonyms: epistemology, cosmology, ontology, philosophy"
- "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."
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