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skepticism

noun

1 skepticism

Doubt about the truth of something.

synonyms: disbelief, incredulity, mental rejection.

Roget 485: unbelief, disbelief, misbelief; discredit, miscreance; infidelity etc. (irreligion) 989; dissent etc. 489; change of opinion ... show more

Roget 487: incredulousness, incredulity; skepticism, pyrrhonism; want of faith etc. (irreligion) 989.    suspiciousness etc. adj.; scrupulosity; suspicion etc. ... show more

Roget 989: irreligion, indevotion; godlessness, ungodliness etc. adj.; laxity, quietism.    skepticism, doubt; unbelief, disbelief; incredulity, incredulousness ... show more

Dutch: ongelovigheid, twijfelzucht, scepticisme, ongeloof
Polish: niewiara, zwątpienie

2 skepticism

The disbelief in any claims of ultimate knowledge.

synonyms: agnosticism, scepticism.

Polish: sceptycyzm, sceptyczność


Moby thesaurus: Humism, Pyrrhonism, agnosticism, apprehension, caution, cautiousness, concern, diffidence, disinclination to believe, distrust, distrustfulness, doubt, doubtfulness, dubiety, dubiousness, guardedness, half-belief, incertitude, inconvincibility, incredulity ... show more.

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