Similar words: skepticism, sceptic, sceptical, asceticism, susceptible, susceptibility, intussusception, criticism. Meaning: ['skeptɪzɪzm] 
n. the disbelief in any claims of ultimate knowledge.
n. the disbelief in any claims of ultimate knowledge. 
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1 Scepticism and trust are not necessarily incompatible.
2 My initial scepticism was replaced with respectful admiration.
3 Other scientists have expressed scepticism about these results.
4 Their claim is being treated with some scepticism in UN.
5 The company's environmental claims have been greeted/regarded/treated with scepticism by conservationists.
6 This theory was initially received with great scepticism by her fellow scientists.
7 There was considerable scepticism about the Chancellor's forecast of a booming economy.
8 He expressed a great deal of scepticism about the value of psychoanalysis.
9 She has a healthy scepticism towards the claims in the company's report.
10 Such assertions have to be viewed with some scepticism.
11 Like policemen, they have a hardened scepticism about humanity.
12 A few people, very few, had a healthy scepticism.
13 But this went much further than healthy scepticism.
14 If not, we relapse into scepticism.
15 There is bound to be some scepticism about it.
16 But Western observers may have grounds for scepticism.
17 Scepticism is all about matching belief to evidence.
18 He found in Byers a bracing scepticism like his own.
19 Such claims should be regarded with a certain amount of scepticism.
20 I regard their press releases with a degree of scepticism.
21 The hype and fervor surrounding the event positively invited scepticism.
22 The hype and fervour surrounding the event positively invited scepticism.
23 By and large, the papers greet the government's new policy document with a certain amount of scepticism.
24 Accordingly, sophisticated econometric analyses of balance of payments behaviour should be treated with strong scepticism.
25 Criticisms of solipsism should therefore count as criticisms of the weak-kneed scepticism embodied in foundationalism.
26 Their own programmes were incorporated in the plan,[www.Sentencedict.com] which must have reduced scepticism and helped in obtaining priority finance.
27 Though greeted with nothing like the derision that met Howarth's six-page statement, the spokesmen encountered a fair degree of scepticism.
28 Hence its rather lordly detachment, its contempt for superstition, and its obvious scepticism.
29 Perhaps it was the clash of Third World beach and Dallas skyscraper which triggered my uncharitable scepticism about his extraordinary Utopianism.
30 By the same token, positive heroes are also regarded with scepticism by Lukacs.
More similar words: skepticism, sceptic, sceptical, asceticism, susceptible, susceptibility, intussusception, criticism, witticism, briticism, mysticism, fanaticism, neuroticism, agnosticism, romanticism, scholasticism, inception, receptive, exception, perception, accepting, deceptive, deception, excepting, perceptive, reception, perceptibly, conception, perceptible, exceptional.