Agnosticism

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Agnosticism \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.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  agnosticism
       n 1: 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"
       2: the disbelief in any claims of ultimate knowledge [syn: {skepticism},
           {scepticism}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  49 Moby Thesaurus words for "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, vacuousness