Agnoiology
noun
(philosophy) the theory of ignorance
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an additional, fourth name given to a person by the ancient Romans in allusion to some achievement or other circumstance, as “Africanus” in “Publius Cornelius Scipio Africanus.”. Compare (def 3). a nickname. Historical Examples Sometimes there was also a fourth name, called the agnomen, added from some illustrious action, or remarkable event. Roman Antiquities, and […]
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- Agnostic
a person who holds that the existence of the ultimate cause, as God, and the essential nature of things are unknown and unknowable, or that human knowledge is limited to experience. Synonyms: disbeliever, nonbeliever, unbeliever; doubter, skeptic, secularist, empiricist; heathen, heretic, infidel, pagan. a person who denies or doubts the possibility of ultimate knowledge in […]