scepticism

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English

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Etymology

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Equivalent to sceptic +‎ -ism.

Noun

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scepticism (countable and uncountable, plural scepticisms)

  1. (British spelling) Alternative spelling of skepticism
    • 1843 April, Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present, American edition, Boston, Mass.: Charles C[offin] Little and James Brown, published 1843, →OCLC, (please specify |book=I or IV, or the page):
      When, across the hundredfold poor scepticisms, trivialisms and constitutional cobwebberies of Dryasdust, you catch any glimpse of a William the Conqueror, a Tancred of Hauteville or suchlike, — do you not discern veritably some rude outline of a true God-made King [] ?
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Romanian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from French scepticisme. By surface analysis, sceptic +‎ -ism.

Noun

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scepticism n (uncountable)

  1. skepticism

Declension

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