Antonyms for skepticism

Grammar : Noun

Spell : skep-tuh-siz-uhm

Phonetic Transcription : ˈskɛp təˌsɪz əm

Definition of skepticism

Origin : also scepticism, 1640s, from skeptic + -ism. Specifically regarding Christian religion, from 1800.

noun doubt

Example sentences :

It should have amounted to identification, but there was skepticism in the the armed party.
Extract from : « Pariah Planet » by Murray Leinster

Primmie seemed to discern a hint of skepticism even in the cough.
Extract from : « Galusha the Magnificent » by Joseph C. Lincoln

Life itself is a bubble and a skepticism, and a sleep within a sleep.
Extract from : « Essays, Second Series » by Ralph Waldo Emerson

I resist the skepticism of our education and of our educated men.
Extract from : « Essays, Second Series » by Ralph Waldo Emerson

I know I love him, and no philosophy or skepticism can cheat me out of that love.
Extract from : « Aims and Aids for Girls and Young Women » by George Sumner Weaver

I think God will forgive us our skepticism sooner than our Inquisitions.
Extract from : « A Preface to Politics » by Walter Lippmann

The lips had already a little curl of bitterness and skepticism.
Extract from : « O Pioneers! » by Willa Cather

Educated reflection and skepticism can disturb this spontaneous relation.
Extract from : « Folkways » by William Graham Sumner

There was interest in his mind, overlaid with skepticism, of course, but interest all the same.
Extract from : « Wizard » by Laurence Mark Janifer (AKA Larry M. Harris)

Nothing is so detestable as the spirit of skepticism abroad in the land to-day.
Extract from : « Doctor Jones' Picnic » by S. E. Chapman

Synonyms for skepticism

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