Skepticism

Noun

 * 1) 🇺🇸 The practice or philosophy of being a skeptic.
 * 2) 🇺🇸 A studied attitude of questioning and doubt
 * 3) 🇺🇸 The doctrine that absolute knowledge is not possible
 * 4) 🇺🇸 A methodology that starts from a neutral standpoint and aims to acquire certainty though scientific or logical observation.
 * 5) 🇺🇸 Doubt or disbelief of religious doctrines

Related terms

 * skeptic
 * skeptical

Adjectives for Skepticism
pretended; indulgent;  cold:  inveterate; painful; native; learned; extreme; happy; definite; flippant; worthwhile; safe; rationalistic.

Verbs for Skepticism
assume—; attribute to—; betray—; break down—; collapse into—; confute—; criticize—; deny—; dispose to—; excuse—; fall into—; incline to—; incur—; involve— justify—; lament—; minimize—; profess— prompt—; rebuke—; regard—; taint by—amuses; —asserts; —overthrows; —persuades; —prevails; —sweeps; —vanishes.

Thesaurus
Humism, Pyrrhonism, agnosticism, apprehension, caution, cautiousness, concern, diffidence, disinclination to believe, distrust, distrustfulness, doubt, doubtfulness, dubiety, dubiousness, guardedness, half-belief, incertitude, inconvincibility, incredulity, leeriness, misdoubt, misgiving, mistrust, mistrustfulness, qualm, qualmishness, question, resistiveness to belief, scoffing, scruple, scrupulousness, self-doubt, shadow of doubt, skepticalness, suspicion, suspiciousness, total skepticism, tough-mindedness, uncertainty, unconvincibility, uncredulousness, unpersuadability, unpersuasibility, wariness, wonder

Alternative forms

 * scepticism (Commonwealth English)

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