What is "agnostic" in English? Definition and Explanations

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What does agnostic mean in English? Meaning of agnostic definition and abbreviation with examples.

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What is "agnostic" in English? Definition and Explanations

Meaning of "agnostic": someone who is doubtful or noncommittal about something

Noun

  • Meaning: someone who is doubtful or noncommittal about something
  • Synonyms: agnostic doubter
  • Hypernyms: individual mortal person somebody someone soul
  • Meaning of "agnostic": of or pertaining to an agnostic or agnosticism

    Adjective

  • Meaning: of or pertaining to an agnostic or agnosticism
  • Synonyms: agnostic
  • Meaning of "agnostic": a person who claims that they cannot have true knowledge about the existence of God (but does not deny that God might exist)

    Noun

  • Meaning: a person who claims that they cannot have true knowledge about the existence of God (but does not deny that God might exist)
  • Synonyms: agnostic
  • Hypernyms: religious person
  • Meaning of "agnostic": uncertain of all claims to knowledge

    Adjective

  • Meaning: uncertain of all claims to knowledge
  • Synonyms: agnostic agnostical
  • Antonyms: gnostic
  • Similar: nescient unbelieving
  • Adjective: A person who holds to a form of agnosticism, especially uncertainty of the existence of a deity. 1876 June 1, Leslie Stephen, “An Agnostic's Apology”, The Forthnightly Review, volume 25/19, number 114, page 840:  The Agnostic is one who asserts—what no one denies—that there are limits to the sphere of human intelligence. 1953 November 3, Bertrand Russell, “What is an Agnostic?”[1], Look:  An agnostic thinks it impossible to know the truth in matters such as God and the future life with which Christianity and other religions are concerned. 1985, Carl Sagan, Contact: a novel, New York: Simon and Schuster, ISBN 978-0671434007, page 175: When I say I'm an agnostic, I only mean that the evidence isn't in. There isn't compelling evidence that God exists — at least your kind of god — and there isn't compelling evidence that he doesn't.1876 June 1, Leslie Stephen, “An Agnostic's Apology”, The Forthnightly Review, volume 25/19, number 114, page 840:  The Agnostic is one who asserts—what no one denies—that there are limits to the sphere of human intelligence.1953 November 3, Bertrand Russell, “What is an Agnostic?”[1], Look:  An agnostic thinks it impossible to know the truth in matters such as God and the future life with which Christianity and other religions are concerned.1985, Carl Sagan, Contact: a novel, New York: Simon and Schuster, ISBN 978-0671434007, page 175: When I say I'm an agnostic, I only mean that the evidence isn't in. There isn't compelling evidence that God exists — at least your kind of god — and there isn't compelling evidence that he doesn't.
  • Synonyms:

    skeptic, doubter, unbeliever, freethinker, materialist,

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    agnostic in English: agnostic
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