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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. Incomprehensibility. A word much used (in its Greek form) by the later Academics and Skeptics (Carneades, Arcesilaus, etc.), who held that human knowledge never amounts to certainty, but only to probability, and who advocated a suspension of judgment upon all questions, even upon the doctrine of acatalepsy itself.
  2. n. In medicine, uncertainty in the diagnosis or prognosis of diseases.
  3. n. A weak understanding; mental deficiency.

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

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. 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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  1. From Ancient Greek α- + καταλαμβάνειν ("to seize"). (Wiktionary)

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