Definitions
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- n. Incomprehensibility of things; the doctrine held by the ancient Skeptic philosophers, that human knowledge never amounts to certainty, but only to probability.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- n. Incomprehensibility of things; the doctrine held by the ancient Skeptic philosophers, that human knowledge never amounts to certainty, but only to probability.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Incomprehensibility.
- n. In medicine, uncertainty in the diagnosis or prognosis of diseases.
- n. A weak understanding; mental deficiency.
Etymologies
From Ancient Greek α- + καταλαμβάνειν ("to seize"). (Wiktionary)
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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