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agnosticism
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun agnosticism has 2 senses
- agnosticism(n = noun.cognition) Array - 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" is a kind of religious orientation
- agnosticism(n = noun.cognition) scepticism, skepticism - the disbelief in any claims of ultimate knowledge; Array is a kind of disbelief, unbelief
CIDE DICTIONARY
agnosticism, n.
That doctrine which, professing ignorance, neither asserts nor denies. [1913 Webster]
THESAURUS
agnosticism
Humism, Pyrrhonism, atheism, blankmindedness, callowness, denial, disbelief, discredit, doubt, empty-headedness, greenhornism, greenness, heresy, hiatus of learning, ignorance, ignorantism, ignorantness, inability to believe, inanity, incredulity, inexperience, infidelity, innocence, know-nothingism, knowledge-gap, lack of information, minimifidianism, misbelief, nescience, nonbelief, nullifidianism, obscurantism, rawness, rejection, scoffing, simpleness, simplicity, skepticism, tabula rasa, unacquaintance, unbelief, unbelievingness, unfamiliarity, unintelligence, unknowing, unknowingness, unripeness, vacuity, vacuousnessROGET THESAURUS
agnosticism
Irreligion
N irreligion, indevotion, godlessness, ungodliness, laxity, quietism, skepticism, doubt, unbelief, disbelief, incredulity, incredulousness, want of faith, want of belief, pyrrhonism, bout, agnosticism, atheism, deism, hylotheism, materialism, positivism, nihilism, infidelity, freethinking, antichristianity, rationalism, neology, atheist, skeptic, unbeliever, deist, infidel, pyrrhonist, giaour, heathen, alien, gentile, Nazarene, espri fort, freethinker, latitudinarian, rationalist, materialist, positivist, nihilist, agnostic, somatist, theophobist, irreligious, indevout, undevout, devoutless, godless, graceless, ungodly, unholy, unsanctified, unhallowed, atheistic, without God, skeptical, freethinking, unbelieving, unconverted, incredulous, faithless, lacking faith, deistical, unchristian, antichristian, worldly, mundane, earthly, carnal, worldly minded, irreligiously.
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