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Adjective
/agˈnästik/,
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agnostics, plural;
  1. Of or relating to agnostics or agnosticism

Noun
  1. A person who believes that nothing is known or can be known of the existence or nature of God or of anything beyond material phenomena; a person who claims neither faith nor disbelief in God

  1. someone who is doubtful or noncommittal about something
  2. of or pertaining to an agnostic or agnosticism
  3. a person who claims that they cannot have true knowledge about the existence of God (but does not deny that God might exist)
  4. uncertain of all claims to knowledge
  5. (agnosticism) a religious orientation of doubt; a denial of ultimate knowledge of the existence of God; "agnosticism holds that you can neither prove nor disprove God's existence"
  6. (agnosticism) the disbelief in any claims of ultimate knowledge
  7. Agnosticism is the view that the truth value of certain claims—especially claims about the existence or non-existence of any deity, but also other religious and metaphysical claims—is unknown or unknowable. ...
  8. A person who holds to a form of agnosticism, especially uncertainty of the existence of a deity; Of or relating to agnosticism or its adherents; Doubtful or uncertain about the existence or demonstrability of God or other deity; A software component (or other entity) that is unaware or ...
  9. (agnosticism) The belief that nothing is or can be known about the existence or nonexistence of god.
  10. (Agnosticism) The belief that it is not possible to know if there is or is not a God. (Compare Atheism, Deism, and Theism.)
  11. (Agnosticism) The doctrine that refuses to accept the evidence of revelation and holds that it is impossible to prove or disprove the existence of God. Hence, any doctrine which holds the impossibility of any true knowledge, such as the doctrine that all knowledge is relative.
  12. (Agnosticism) [from Greek a not + gnostos known] The mental attitude denying the possibility of the real knowledge of truth and hence of the ultimate or fundamental nature of the universe. The term was coined by T. H. ...
  13. (Agnosticism) The belief that the existence of God is not knowable. The word is derived from the negative 'a' combined with the Greek word 'gnosis,' which means knowledge.  Hence, agnosticism is the belief that God cannot be known.
  14. (Agnosticism) From Greek, a- meaning without and gnosis, meaning knowledge, agnosticism is the contention that we cannot know whether or not there is a God. It does not deny God but only the knowledge that such things - which is to say, anything other than empirical knowledge - can be known.
  15. (AGNOSTICISM) Click to check definition not being sure whether God exists. You require more proof.
  16. (AGNOSTICISM) (Greek, agnostos: "unknowable): The religious doctrine that asserts that it is impossible to know whether there are Deities or anything beyond physical/material phenomena. It is different from Atheism which asserts that Deities do not exist.
  17. (Agnosticism (sometimes Skepticism)) Essentially it is the belief that ultimate truths (like whether there is a God or a heaven or hell or even an afterlife or what is truly right or wrong) are ultimately unknowable.
  18. (Agnosticism) An idealist philosophical theory asserting that the world is unknowable, that the human mind is limited and cannot know anything beyond the realms of sensations. ...
  19. (Agnosticism) Denies that man can know whether or not God exists. Therefore it also denies the validity of the Bible. The only certainties are those that can be proved by "science."
  20. (Agnosticism) God is unknown and unknowable because God has not revealed himself to man. The finite mind cannot comprehend God. Absolute God cannot come into intimacy or make himself known to finite mind - man. Cannot prove or disprove - does not affirm or deny
  21. (Agnosticism) The position that the truth of religious claims cannot be proven and which maintains the need either for faith or for the suspension of belief.
  22. (Agnosticism) the theory that the ultimate problems of philosophy and religion are insoluble.
  23. (agnosticism) A belief that we cannot have knowledge of God and that we cannot prove that God exists or doesn't exist.
  24. (agnosticism) Belief that human beings do not have sufficient evidence to warrant either the affirmation or the denial of a proposition. The term is used especially in reference to our lack of knowledge of the existence of god. ...
  25. (agnosticism) The belief that it is impossible to know whether God exists, or to have any other theological knowledge. English thinkers T. H. Huxley (1825-95) and Bertrand Russell were influential agnostics.