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Agnosticism
is always a great word to know.
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Example Sentences
- Agnosticism certainly indulges bipolarity in everything.
- The prime minister is sometimes held to be enthusiastic but is also careful in public to stress his agnosticism.
- Science should be orthogonal with religion, which is why agnosticism is actually the only belief that is consistent with it.
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World English Dictionary
| agnostic (æɡˈnɒstɪk) | |
| —n | |
| 1. | atheist Compare theist a person who holds that knowledge of a Supreme Being, ultimate cause, etc, is impossible |
| 2. | a person who claims, with respect to any particular question, that the answer cannot be known with certainty |
| —adj | |
| 3. | of or relating to agnostics |
| [C19: coined 1869 by T. H. Huxley from | |
| ag'nosticism | |
| —n | |
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Cultural Dictionary
agnosticism [(ag-nos-tuh-siz-uhm)]A denial of knowledge about whether there is or is not a God. An agnostic insists that it is impossible to prove that there is no God and impossible to prove that there is one. (Compare atheism.)
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