Hyper Dictionary

English Dictionary Computer Dictionary Thesaurus Dream Dictionary Medical Dictionary


Search Dictionary:  

Meaning of AGNOSTICISM

Pronunciation:  ag'nâsti`sizum

WordNet Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
  1. [n]  the disbelief in any claims of ultimate knowledge
  2. [n]  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"
 
 Websites: 
 
 Synonyms: scepticism, skepticism
 
 See Also: disbelief, religious orientation, unbelief

 

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
\Ag*nos"ti*cism\, n.
That doctrine which, professing ignorance, neither asserts
nor denies. Specifically: (Theol.) The doctrine that the
existence of a personal Deity, an unseen world, etc., can be
neither proved nor disproved, because of the necessary limits
of the human mind (as sometimes charged upon Hamilton and
Mansel), or because of the insufficiency of the evidence
furnished by physical and physical data, to warrant a
positive conclusion (as taught by the school of Herbert
Spencer); -- opposed alike dogmatic skepticism and to
dogmatic theism.
 
Thesaurus Terms
 
 Related Terms: atheism, blankmindedness, callowness, denial, disbelief, discredit, doubt, empty-headedness, greenhornism, greenness, heresy, hiatus of learning, Humism, ignorance, ignorantism, ignorantness, inability to believe, inanity, incredulity, inexperience, infidelity, innocence, knowledge-gap, know-nothingism, lack of information, minimifidianism, misbelief, nescience, nonbelief, nullifidianism, obscurantism, Pyrrhonism, rawness, rejection, scoffing, simpleness, simplicity, skepticism, tabula rasa, unacquaintance, unbelief, unbelievingness, unfamiliarity, unintelligence, unknowing, unknowingness, unripeness, vacuity, vacuousness
 

 

 

 

COPYRIGHT © 2000-2003 WEBNOX CORP. HOME | ABOUT HYPERDICTIONARY