skepticism
nounA doubting or questioning attitude or state of mind; dubiety. synonym: uncertainty.
nounThe ancient school of Pyrrho of Elis that stressed the uncertainty of our beliefs in order to oppose dogmatism.
nounThe doctrine that absolute knowledge is impossible, either in a particular domain or in general.
nounA methodology based on an assumption of doubt with the aim of acquiring approximate or relative certainty.
nounDoubt or disbelief of religious tenets.
nounThe entertaining of mistrust, doubt, or disbelief; especially, the reasoning of one who doubts the possibility of knowledge of reality; the systematic doubt which characterizes a philosophical skeptic; specifically, doubt or disbelief of the fundamental doctrines of the Christian religion.
nounAn undecided, inquiring state of mind; doubt; uncertainty.
nounThe doctrine that no fact or principle can be certainly known; the tenet that all knowledge is uncertain; Pyrrohonism; universal doubt; the position that no fact or truth, however worthy of confidence, can be established on philosophical grounds; critical investigation or inquiry, as opposed to the positive assumption or assertion of certain principles.
nounA doubting of the truth of revelation, or a denial of the divine origin of the Christian religion, or of the being, perfections, or truth of God.