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agnosticism

noun

ag·​nos·​ti·​cism ag-ˈnä-stə-ˌsi-zəm How to pronounce agnosticism (audio)
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: an agnostic quality, state, or attitude:
a
: the view that any ultimate reality (such as a deity) is unknown and probably unknowable : a philosophical or religious position characterized by uncertainty about the existence of a god or any gods
Religious agnosticism may accept the ethical value of a religious way of living and even endorse religious ideas as a viable basis for understanding various aspects of human existence. Gary Gutting
b
: an attitude of doubt or uncertainty about something
This purposeful agnosticism, which served the tobacco industry well, will sound eerily familiar to anyone following the global warming "debate"—another case in which a few pedigreed skeptics, whose views align with those of a powerful industry, are framing consensus as controversy. Jonathan Miles
The developers of quantum mechanics, attempting to describe the electron's charge or mass or momentum or energy or spin in almost every new equation, nevertheless maintained a silent agnosticism about certain issues of its existence. James Gleick

Word History

Etymology

agnostic entry 2 + -ism

First Known Use

1848, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of agnosticism was in 1848

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