acatalepsy
noun
acat·a·lep·sy
(ˈ)āˈkatᵊlˌepsē
plural -es
1
: an ancient Skeptic doctrine that human knowledge amounts only to probability and never to certainty
2
: real or apparent impossibility of arriving at certain knowledge or full comprehension
Word History
Etymology
Greek akatalēpsia, from a- a- entry 2 + katalēpsis comprehension, seizing + -ia
First Known Use
1640, in the meaning defined at sense 1
- methodless
- methodological
- methodologically
- methodologies
- methodologist
- methodologists
- methodology
- methods
- methods engineer
- methods engineering
- methods man
- Methody
- methone
- methos
- methosulfate
- methotrexate
- methotrexates
- methought
- methoughts
- methoxide
- methoxides
- methoxycarbonyl
- methoxychlor
- methoxychlors
- methoxyflurane