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Definition: PYRRHONISM |
PYRRHONISMNoun1. Skepticism; universal doubt. |
Date "PYRRHONISM" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1748. (references) |
"PYRRHONISM" is a common misspelling or typo for: Pyrrhonist. |
| Domain | Definition |
Satire | PYRRHONISM, n. An ancient philosophy, named for its inventor. It consisted of an absolute disbelief in everything but Pyrrhonism. Its modern professors have added that. Q. Source: Devil's Dictionary. |
Literature | Pyrrhonism Infidelity. (See above.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Incredulity | Noun: incredulousness, incredulity; skepticism, pyrrhonism; want of faith; (irreligion). |
Irreligion | Skepticism, doubt; unbelief, disbelief; incredulity, incredulousness; Adjective: want of faith, want of belief; pyrrhonism; bout; agnosticism. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: PYRRHONISM |
| English words defined with "PYRRHONISM": Pyrrhonic. (references) |
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
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| Language | Translations for "PYRRHONISM"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Russian | учение греческого философа Пиррона, скептицизм (scepticism, skepticism, skeptisism). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | sự ho i nghi triết học. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Words rhyming with "PYRRHONISM" (pronounced 'Pyr"rho*nism'): Agonism, Albinism, Anachronism, Antagonism, Antichronism, Autochthonism, Centonism, Cinchonism, Communism, Cyphonism, laconism, Mangonism, Marconism, Metachronism, Monogenism, Nanism, Neonism, Neoplatonism, Parachronism, Philanthropinism, Phrenism, Platonism, Plutonism, Polygenism, Polyphonism, Prochronism, Pythonism, saturnism, Stercoranism, synchronism, Tyronism, Ultramontanism. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "h-i-m-n-o-p-r-r-s-y" | |
-2 letters: morphins. | |
-3 letters: morphin, nymphos, rompish, shrimpy. | |
-4 letters: hominy, minors, monish, mopish, morphs, morris, myosin, myrrhs, nympho, nymphs, orpins, porism, primos, prions, priors, priory, prison, rhinos, rosiny, shrimp, simony, siphon, spinor, syphon. | |
-5 letters: horns, horny, horsy, hymns, hypos, hyson, irons, irony, minor, morns, morph, myrrh, noirs, noisy, noris, norms, nymph, opsin, ornis, orpin, orris, phons. | |
| Words containing the letters "h-i-m-n-o-p-r-r-s-y" | |
+4 letters: hypermodernist. | |
+5 letters: hypermodernists, semipornography. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Translations: Modern | 5. Rhymes 6. Anagrams 7. Bibliography |
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