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skepticizing

skepticizing is the present participle and gerund of skepticize.

Meaning of skepticize

Verb

skepticize (third-person singular simple present skepticizes, present participle skepticizing, simple past and past participle skepticized)

  1. To doubt; to be skeptical
    • to skepticize, where no one else will […] hesitate1709, Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury, “The Moralists, a Philosophical Rhapsody”, in Characteristics of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times, volume II, London, published 1732

Questions about skepticizing

What is skepticizing the present participle and gerund of?
Skepticizing is the present participle and gerund of skepticize.

Words near skepticizing in the dictionary

  1. skepticist
  2. skepticists
  3. skepticize
  4. skepticized
  5. skepticizes
  6. skepticizing
  7. skeptick
  8. skepticks
  9. skeptics
  10. skeptimist
  11. skeptimistic

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