RRsomeone who believes that people cannot know whether Godexists or not 不可知论者 → atheist► see thesaurus at religious
—agnosticadjectiveadj
—agnosticism /-tɪsɪzəm/ noun [uncountableU]
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agnostic• Despite their arguments, I still saw no reason to abandon my agnosticism.• She likes to keep an open mind in religiousmatters and so refers to herself as an agnostic.• You can still divine water with a rod and be an agnostic.• When I started out my career, I was an agnostic.• No, she was an agnostic.• He was a very vulnerable hard-swearing, full-bloodedagnostic, or possibly an atheist.• Butler, Newman and Blougram might be considered agnosticsaccording to Ayer's definition, or they might be considered theists.• And he was right, of course, it was all my fault, I was a long-haired hippieagnostic.• Amelia was an inquiringagnostic and an insatiable searcher for knowledge.• To have such a thing happen - when for a lifetime she had been a perfectly normalagnostic, like everybody else.
Originagnostic
(1800-1900)Greekagnostos“unknown, unknowable”, from a-“not” + gnostos“known”