Agnostic

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Agnostic /æɡˈnɒstɪk/

Noun

1. a person who holds that knowledge of a Supreme Being, ultimate

cause, etc, is impossible Compare atheist, theist

2. a person who claims, with respect to any particular question, that the

answer cannot be known with certainty

Adjective

3. of or relating to agnostics

Derived Forms

Noun - agnosticism

Quote

“In theory he [Prof. Huxley] is a great and even severe Agnostic,– who goes

about exhorting all men to know how little they know.“ 
—R. H. Hutton, Spectator (29 January 1870)

Origin

C19: coined 1869 by T. H. Huxley from a + Gnostic

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