Scepticism

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Alternative spelling of skepticism. UK, alt-of, alternative, countable, uncountable

    "When, across the hundredfold poor scepticisms, trivialisms and constitutional cobwebberies of Dryasdust, you catch any glimpse of a William the Conqueror, a Tancred of Hauteville or suchlike, — do you not discern veritably some rude outline of a true God-made King […]?"

  2. 2
    doubt about the truth of something wordnet
  3. 3
    the disbelief in any claims of ultimate knowledge wordnet

Synonyms

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agnosticismagnosticismdisbeliefdiscreditdistrustdoubt

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"Dr Tyler expressed scepticism at Dr Ramsay's revolutionary new therapy."

Etymology

Equivalent to sceptic + -ism.

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