AGNOSTICISM

agnosticism, skepticism, scepticism

(noun) the disbelief in any claims of ultimate knowledge

agnosticism

(noun) a religious orientation of doubt; a denial of ultimate knowledge of the existence of God; “agnosticism holds that you can neither prove nor disprove God’s existence”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

Etymology

Noun

agnosticism (countable and uncountable, plural agnosticisms)

The view that absolute truth or ultimate certainty is unattainable, especially regarding knowledge not based on experience or perceivable phenomena.

The view that the existence of God or of all deities is unknown, unknowable, unproven, or unprovable.

Doubt, uncertainty, or scepticism regarding the existence of a god or gods.

(by extension) Doubt, uncertainty, or scepticism regarding any subject of dispute.

Coordinate terms

• deism

Source: Wiktionary

Ag*nos"ti*cism, n.

Definition: That doctrine which, professing ignorance, neither asserts nor denies. Specifically: (Theol.)

Definition: The doctrine that the existence of a personal Deity, an unseen world, etc., can be neither proved nor disproved, because of the necessary limits of the human mind (as sometimes charged upon Hamilton and Mansel), or because of the insufficiency of the evidence furnished by physical and physical data, to warrant a positive conclusion (as taught by the school of Herbert Spencer); -- opposed alike dogmatic skepticism and to dogmatic theism.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition