Crossword-Solution: SCEPTICISM
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Scepticism | - | etc. See Skeptic, Skeptical, Skepticism, etc. |
We have 21 clues for the answer “SCEPTICISM”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Pyrrhonism | 1 answer |
| DENIAL of existence | 3 answers |
| unfaith | 8 answers |
| Incredulity | 13 answers |
| Reservation | 17 answers |
| dubiety | 18 answers |
| disbelief | 31 answers |
| Queasiness | 35 answers |
| Twinge | 39 answers |
| reluctance | 41 answers |
| Qualm | 45 answers |
| call in question | 46 answers |
| scruple | 46 answers |
| Suspicion | 50 answers |
| Cloudiness | 55 answers |
| seizure | 58 answers |
| Scrape | 59 answers |
| muddlement | 59 answers |
| Sadness | 62 answers |
| Concern | 72 answers |
| Predica-ment | 76 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with SCEPTICISM (5)
Had Filby shown the model and explained the matter in the Time Traveller’s words, we should have shown _him_ far less scepticism.
Well, my father was a strange man; he somehow combined Fanshaw’s superstition with a good deal of my scepticism--they were always fighting in him; and after my first voyages, he developed a notion which he thought somehow would settle finally whether the curse was truth or trash.
How far was I from questioning her unbelief! While the charmingly sincere young man pleaded with her—accompanied by the orchestra in the old ‘Traviata’ duet, ‘misterioso, misterios’ altero!’—she maintained her bitter scepticism, and the curtain fell on her dancing recklessly with the others, after Armand had been sent away with his flower.
Tennyson’s poetry is, in fact, an expression of the highest sublimation of the scepticism which came out of the eighteenth century, which invoked the authority of the sensualistic philosophy of Locke, and has since been fostered by the science of the nineteenth; while Browning’s poetry is a decided protest against, and a reactionary product of, that scepticism, that infidel philosophy (infidel as to the transcendental), and has CLOSED with it and borne away the palm.
When I had strolled with him to a distance from the building, which rendered him safe from being overheard by human ears, he told me in a hollow voice, trembling with emotion, that there were times at which he doubted the divinity of “milèdi.” I said nothing to encourage the poor fellow in that frightful state of scepticism which, if indulged, might end in positive infidelity.
Quotes with SCEPTICISM (3)
The scepticism which men affect towards their higher inspirations is often not an honest doubt, but a guilty negligence, and is a sign of narrow mind and defective wisdom.
In the pragmatist, streetwise climate of advanced postmodern capitalism, with its scepticism of big pictures and grand narratives, its hard-nosed disenchantment with the metaphysical, 'life' is one among a whole series of discredited totalities. We are invited to think small rather than big — ironically, at just the point when some of those out to destroy Western civilization are doing exactly the opposite. In the conflict between Western capitalism and radical Islam, a pauci…
Scepticism is the first step towards truth.