Agnosticism Definition
ăg-nŏstĭ-sĭzəm
noun
The doctrine that certainty about first principles or absolute truth is unattainable and that only perceptual phenomena are objects of exact knowledge.
American Heritage
The doctrine of agnostics.
Webster's New World
The belief that the existence or nonexistence of a deity or deities cannot be known with certainty.
American Heritage
The view that absolute truth or ultimate certainty is unattainable, especially regarding knowledge not based on experience or perceivable phenomena.
Wiktionary
The view that the existence of God or of all deities is unknown, unknowable, unproven, or unprovable.
Wiktionary
Synonyms:
- scepticism
- skepticism
- unknowingness
- unacquaintance
- obscurantism
- minimifidianism
- knowledge-gap
- humism
Origin of Agnosticism
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a- + gnostic + -ism
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