Definitions for scepticism

scepticism scep·ti·cism

Spelling: [skep-tuh-siz-uh m]
IPA: /ˈskɛp təˌsɪz əm/

Scepticism is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 22 points.

You can make 322 anagrams from letters in scepticism (cceiimpsst).

Definitions for scepticism

noun

  1. skepticism.
  2. skeptical attitude or temper; doubt.
  3. doubt or unbelief with regard to a religion, especially Christianity.
  4. (initial capital letter) the doctrines or opinions of philosophical Skeptics; universal doubt.

Origin of scepticism

1640-50; New Latin scepticismus, equivalent to Latin sceptic(us) skeptic + -ismus -ism

Examples for scepticism

There was a tinge of scepticism in his voice, though he tried to hide it.

Possibly this scepticism has never yet injured the cause of an innocent man.

There is no scepticism among the labourers now, I assure you.

The three elder men were silent, but they seemed to receive what he said with scepticism.

scepticism was not only in his conscious thought but in the very tissues of his mind.

Miss Smith's voice still carried a suggestion of scepticism.

These are the sort of proofs that no scepticism is strong enough to resist.

Let scepticism assert what it may, such is the nature of man.

For all my scepticism, I had an unexpectedly romantic evening.

He goes beyond facts in his scepticism, as they did in their idealism.

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