Etymology

acatalepsy

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Today it means: Incomprehensibility of things; the doctrine held by the ancient skeptic philosophers, that human knowledge never amounts to certainty, but only to probability. Full definition →

Ancient Greek ἀ-
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  1. Ancient Greek · derived fromἀ-
  2. English todayacatalepsy

From Ancient Greek ἀ- (a-) + καταλαμβάνειν (katalambánein, “to seize”).

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