Agnostic
[æg'nɒstɪk] or [æg'nɑstɪk]
Definition
(noun.) a person who claims that they cannot have true knowledge about the existence of God (but does not deny that God might exist).
(noun.) someone who is doubtful or noncommittal about something.
(adj.) uncertain of all claims to knowledge .
(adj.) of or pertaining to an agnostic or agnosticism .
Edited by Lilian--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Professing ignorance; involving no dogmatic; pertaining to or involving agnosticism.
(n.) One who professes ignorance, or denies that we have any knowledge, save of phenomena; one who supports agnosticism, neither affirming nor denying the existence of a personal Deity, a future life, etc.
Typist: Mason
Definition
n. one who holds that we know nothing of things beyond material phenomena—that a First Cause and an unseen world are things unknown and apparently unknowable.—n. Agnos′ticism.
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Examples
- Morally speaking, I am what you call an agnostic, though truly I believe in a supreme power. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- I also was taught as you, but forty years of solitude—comparative solitude—and pondering have turned me into what I am—an agnostic. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
Editor: Ronda