acatalepsy

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Incomprehensibility of things; the doctrine held by the ancient skeptic philosophers, that human knowledge never amounts to certainty, but only to probability.

Pronunciation

/eɪˈkæ.tə.lɛp.si/ /əˈkæ.tə.lɛp.si/

Word forms

acatalepsy

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ἀ- (a-) + καταλαμβάνειν (katalambánein, “to seize”).

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