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skepticism
  1. (US) The practice or philosophy of being a skeptic.
  2. (US) A studied attitude of questioning and doubt
  3. (US) The doctrine that absolute knowledge is not possible
  4. (US) A methodology that starts from a neutral standpoint and aims to acquire certainty though scientific or logical observation.
  5. (US) Doubt or disbelief of religious doctrines
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  7. Examples:
    1. “And yet there has never been more wariness of industrial development and more skepticism about its benefits.”
      “Public skepticism of schemes of this kind might diminish if the officials in charge didn't act like they were trying to put one over on us.”
      “What might seem like skepticism ends up as affirmation because of the poet's commitment to honesty.”
skeptic
  1. Someone who habitually doubts beliefs and claims presented as accepted by others, requiring strong evidence before accepting any belief or claim.
  2. Someone undecided as to what is true.
  3. A type of agnostic.
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  5. Examples:
    1. “He is rather like me, a true skeptic whose passion for questioning emotionally held beliefs and outspokenness makes him many dangerous enemies.”
      “The most die-hard atheist or skeptic may suddenly find God when faced with an extreme suffering or danger.”
      “David has recently written a book on psychic phenomena from the standpoint of suspicious skeptic of the supernatural.”
skeptopathy
  1. (slang) Pathological skepticism; an irrational belief that a phenomenon must be false merely because it is unusual.
scepsis
  1. skepticism; skeptical philosophy
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Among their products were the system of Locke, the scepsis of Hume, the critical philosophy of Kant.”
      “The manuscripts were left from Aristotle to his successor Theophrastus, who in turn willed them to Neleus of Scepsis.”
skeptimist
  1. One who is both skeptical and optimistic.
scepticist
  1. One who is skeptical; a sceptic.
sceptic
  1. British spelling standard spelling of skeptic.
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Indeed, all progress depends on the sceptic, the questioner, the person who does not wholly conform.”
      “I was a disinterested sceptic when it came to God and the afterlife.”
      “Hume was quite well aware that Berkeley would not have owned to being a sceptic.”
skepticist
  1. (American) Alternative form of scepticist
scepticism
  1. (British spelling) alternative form of skepticism
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Against his mining record, scepticism about the sincerity of Reid's renewable energy embrace is perhaps not unwarranted.”
      “Britain has an age-old tradition of Euro scepticism that goes back to well before the Second World War.”
      “It is not the reality of scepticism or of truth dissolving relativism, but the claim to truth of all formal argument that is affected.”
scepticalness
  1. The quality of being sceptical.
skepticalness
  1. Quality of being skeptical.
sceptick
  1. Obsolete form of sceptic.
skeptick
  1. Obsolete form of skeptic.
skepticisms
  1. plural of skepticism
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  3. Examples:
    1. “But some of these skepticisms, at times, have gotten a bit bothersome, to the point of accusing the Army of deception about the Stryker's performance and transportability.”
      “The new statement will comprise the skepticisms as well as the faiths of society, and out of unbeliefs a creed shall be formed.”
      “Also, many people feel skeptical about the existence of ghosts, so the audience within the story — the dinner guests — gave me an opportunity to insert what I anticipated might be a reader's skepticisms into the story.”
skepticists
  1. plural of skepticist
skeptimists
  1. plural of skeptimist
scepticisms
scepticists
  1. plural of scepticist
scepticks
  1. plural of sceptick
skepticks
  1. plural of skeptick
sceptics
  1. plural of sceptic
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Cynics and sceptics raised uncomfortable questions, and found serious flaws with the script.”
      “The couple announced their romance in Italy earlier this month, prompting sceptics to question the validity of the match.”
      “But sceptics say he still has to cut spending or raise taxes to balance the books and could raise indirect taxes in next year's budget.”
skeptics
  1. plural of skeptic
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Even so, say the skeptics, it's hard to make a solid business case for these leviathans.”
      “This position does not make critical theorists moral skeptics, at least insofar as that term connotes a negative or irrational quality.”
      “The rhetoric is often more deliverer-driven than consumerists desired but not always as windy as skeptics surmised.”
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