scepticism
English edit
Etymology edit
Noun edit
scepticism (countable and uncountable, plural scepticisms)
- (British spelling) Alternative spelling of skepticism
- 1843 April, Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present, American edition, Boston, Mass.: Charles C[offin] Little and James Brown, published 1843, →OCLC, (please specify |book=I or IV, or the page):
- When, across the hundredfold poor scepticisms, trivialisms and constitutional cobwebberies of Dryasdust, you catch any glimpse of a William the Conqueror, a Tancred of Hauteville or suchlike, — do you not discern veritably some rude outline of a true God-made King […] ?
Related terms edit
Romanian edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from French scepticisme. By surface analysis, sceptic + -ism.
Noun edit
scepticism n (uncountable)
Declension edit
declension of scepticism (singular only)
| singular | ||
|---|---|---|
| n gender | indefinite articulation | definite articulation |
| nominative/accusative | (un) scepticism | scepticismul |
| genitive/dative | (unui) scepticism | scepticismului |
| vocative | scepticismule | |