scepticism

English

Etymology

From Latin *scepticus, only in plural Sceptici ‎(“the sect of Skeptics”), from Ancient Greek σκεπτικός ‎(skeptikós, “thoughtful, inquiring”), from σκέπτομαι ‎(sképtomai, “I consider”), compare to σκοπέω ‎(skopéō, “I view, examine”).

Noun

scepticism ‎(countable and uncountable, plural scepticisms)

1. (British) Alternative spelling of skepticism
   • Thomas Carlyle

     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 […] ?