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English
Etymology
Equivalent to sceptic + -ism.
Noun
scepticism (countable and uncountable, plural scepticisms)
- (British spelling) Alternative spelling of skepticism
1843 April, Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present, American edition, Boston, Mass.: Charles C[offin] Little and James Brown, published 1843, →OCLC, (please specify |book=I or IV, or the page):When, across the hundredfold poor scepticisms, trivialisms and constitutional cobwebberies of Dryasdust, you catch any glimpse of a William the Conqueror, a Tancred of Hauteville or suchlike, — do you not discern veritably some rude outline of a true God-made King […] ?
Romanian
Etymology
Borrowed from French scepticisme. By surface analysis, sceptic + -ism.
Noun
scepticism n (uncountable)
- skepticism
Declension
declension of scepticism (singular only)