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 to certainty, but only to probability.

Etymologies

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From Ancient Greek α- + καταλαμβάνειν ("to seize").

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  • JM wonders if it's the nation rather than the state of acatalepsy

    August 18, 2010