Skepticism is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for SKEPTICISM in dictionary:

NOUN:
• an undecided, inquiring state of mind, also SCEPTICISM
• a sceptical attitude; doubt as to the truth of something
• the theory that certain knowledge is impossible
• An undecided, inquiring state of mind; doubt; uncertainty.
• The doctrine that no fact or principle can be certainly known; the tenet that all knowledge is uncertain; Pyrrohonism; universal doubt; the position that no fact or truth, however worthy of confidence, can be established on philosophical grounds; critical investigation or inquiry, as opposed to the positive assumption or assertion of certain principles.
• A doubting of the truth of revelation, or a denial of the divine origin of the Christian religion, or of the being, perfections, or truth of God.
• doubt about the truth of something
• the disbelief in any claims of ultimate knowledge
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• an attitude of doubt or a disposition to incredulity either in general or toward a particular object

Words related to SKEPTICISM

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Words that contain SKEPTICISM

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How to use SKEPTICISM in a sentence

• A general skepticism has thus been induced, exceedingly dangerous in times like these.
• Had I sat down to write of the English countryside two years ago, I should have done so with a certain amount of cautious skepticism.
• Here it was truly said the Genius of the East met the Genius of the West, and this Paris of antiquity became a focus of fashionable dissipation and universal skepticism.
• Skepticism did not do so well until the Bible came.
• Celsus, from whom our less scholarly skepticism is ready to borrow arguments, was not enough for the new thought in the arena of debate, and they cried for another arena.
• This objection seems to me sometimes an expression of spiritual arrogance and sometimes a subtle form of skepticism.
• The condition of the Catholic church in France, in his time, was sufficiently shocking to have startled every intelligent mind into skepticism.
• The purpose, then, is not to express the doubts or skepticism of the writer, not to record the complaining of a bitter spirit.
• In many of the denominations there is a widespread skepticism as to the reality of original sin, or native depravity.
• But the blow which crushed her heart, destroyed its skepticism.
• It is, therefore, just one more unexpected aspect of the hard skepticism of the time, which trusts nothing it cannot hear, or see, or touch.
• Awe of the Foanna powers had touched him a little in spite of his off-world skepticism.
• We have to regret the fact, that some of the best minds in the place are tinged with skepticism.
• But that early departure from the established religion carried her into the field of German skepticism.
• Skepticism carried to its ultimate consequences is the negation of everything.
• We have ignored the historical movement of skepticism.
• As far as we know he was the first to expose to the English-speaking world the sad state to which this form of skepticism had reduced Germany.
• Glancing first at the cultivated circles, we find a practical indifference well nigh akin to skepticism beginning to prevail among the noble and wealthy.
• In the early part of his life he was blameless, but he subsequently betrayed all the personal weakness which his skepticism tended to engender.
• Doubt, uncertainty, skepticism! You begin with anguish and you end with despair.
• A thorough infusion of doubt into the minds of the youth of the land was all that was now needed to complete the sovereignty of skepticism.
• The most thorough student of church history must conclude that no other kind of skepticism has received more aid from external sources.
• In the latter case the people were disgusted with the efforts of foreign skepticism, but in the former, they saw and felt the sore evils of domestic Rationalism.
• Skepticism received the support of the educated and refined German circles during latter part of the eighteenth century, 149.
• But his very love for the contemplation of nature has in no small degree contributed to the mischievous skepticism promulgated by our poet.
• He was decidedly pleasing to her with his sallies, his skepticism which, as she thought, covered more belief than he wished to disclose.
• The skepticism of other days denied the existence of Nineveh.

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