Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Incomprehensibility.
- noun In medicine, uncertainty in the diagnosis or prognosis of diseases.
- noun A weak understanding; mental deficiency.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Incomprehensibility of things; the doctrine held by the ancient Skeptic philosophers, that human knowledge never amounts to certainty, but only to probability.
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- noun
Incomprehensibility of things; the doctrine held by the ancient Skeptic philosophers, that human knowledge never amounts tocertainty , but only toprobability .
Etymologies
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From Ancient Greek α- + καταλαμβάνειν ("to seize").
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jmjarmstrong commented on the word acatalepsy
JM wonders if it's the nation rather than the state of acatalepsy
August 18, 2010