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acatalepsy

US/eɪˈkæ.tə.lɛp.si/

acatalepsy noun: incomprehensibility of things; the doctrine held by the ancient skeptic philosophers, that human knowledge never amounts to certainty, but only to probability.

Noun

acatalepsy (uncountable)

  1. Incomprehensibility of things; the doctrine held by the ancient skeptic philosophers, that human knowledge never amounts to certainty, but only to probability.

acatalepsy meaning in Hindi, Tamil and Kannada

acatalepsy in Hindi

acatalepsy
अनिश्चयवाद aniścayvād

acatalepsy in Tamil

பொருள்களை முழுதும் அறியாத தன்மை

acatalepsy in Kannada

ಅಜ್ಞೇಯತೆ

Origin of acatalepsy

From Ancient Greek ἀ- (a-) + καταλαμβάνειν (katalambánein, “to seize”).

Questions about acatalepsy

What does acatalepsy mean?
Acatalepsy means incomprehensibility of things; the doctrine held by the ancient skeptic philosophers, that human knowledge never amounts to certainty, but only to probability.
What is acatalepsy in Hindi?
Acatalepsy in Hindi is अनिश्चयवाद (aniścayvād). See Acatalepsy meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is acatalepsy?
Acatalepsy is a noun.
How do you pronounce acatalepsy?
Acatalepsy is pronounced /eɪˈkæ.tə.lɛp.si/ (US).

Words near acatalepsy in the dictionary

  1. acatalasemic
  2. acatalasia
  3. acatalectic
  4. acatalectics
  5. acatalepsia
  6. acatalepsy
  7. acataleptic
  8. acataleptics
  9. acatalexes
  10. acatalexis
  11. acatallactic

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Adapted from Wiktionary: acatalepsy (page history and authors); अनिश्चयवाद (Hindi) (page history and authors); acatalepsy (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); acatalepsy (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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