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Noun
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Incomprehensibility of things; the doctrine held by the ancient Skeptic philosophers, that human knowledge never amounts to certainty, but only to probability.

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Origin

The word comes from the Ancient Greek prefix a- combined with katalambánein, meaning "to seize." It literally describes something that cannot be grasped or understood.

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psy opsy kipsy gipsy dipsy tipsy mopsy oopsy popsy topsy lepsy gypsy corpsy apepsy dempsy limpsy biopsy flopsy turpsy dropsy
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