different between opinion vs agnostic

English

Etymology

From Middle English opinion, opinioun, from Anglo-Norman and Middle French opinion, from Latin op?ni?, from op?nor (“to opine”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??p?nj?n/
• Rhymes: -?nj?n
• Hyphenation: opin?ion

Noun

opinion (plural opinions)

1. A belief, judgment or perspective that a person has formed, either through objective or subjective reasoning, about a topic, issue, person or thing.
   • 1891, Oscar Wilde, The Critic as Artist

     Truth, in matters of religion, is simply the opinion that has survived.

2. The judgment or sentiment which the mind forms of persons or things; estimation.
   • 1606, William Shakespeare, Macbeth, I. vii. 32:

     I have bought golden opinions from all sorts of people.

   • Friendship […] gives a man a peculiar right and claim to the good opinion of his friend.

3. (obsolete) Favorable estimation; hence, consideration; reputation; fame; public sentiment or esteem.
   • 1597, William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part 1, V. iv. 47:

     Thou hast redeemed thy lost opinion.
4. (obsolete) Obstinacy in holding to one's belief or impression; opiniativeness; conceitedness.
   • 1590, William Shakespeare, Love's Labour's Lost, V. i. 5:

     Your reasons at / dinner have been sharp and sententious, pleasant / without scurrility, witty without affection, audacious / without impudency, learned without opinion, and / strange without heresy.

5. The formal decision, or expression of views, of a judge, an umpire, a doctor, or other party officially called upon to consider and decide upon a matter or point submitted.
6. (European Union law) a judicial opinion delivered by an Advocate General to the European Court of Justice where he or she proposes a legal solution to the cases for which the court is responsible

Derived terms

Related terms

• opination
• opine
• opinionated

Translations

See also

• fact

Verb

opinion (third-person singular simple present opinions, present participle opinioning, simple past and past participle opinioned)

1. (transitive, archaic) To have or express as an opinion.
   • 1658, Sir Thomas Browne, The Graden of Cyrus (Folio Society 2007, p. 166)

     But if (as some opinion) King Ahasuerus were Artaxerxes Mnemon [...], our magnified Cyrus was his second Brother

Translations

References

• opinion at OneLook Dictionary Search
• opinion in Keywords for Today: A 21st Century Vocabulary, edited by The Keywords Project, Colin MacCabe, Holly Yanacek, 2018.
• opinion in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Esperanto

Noun

opinion

1. accusative singular of opinio

French

Etymology

From Middle French opinion, from Latin op?ni?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?.pi.nj??/

Noun

opinion f (plural opinions)

1. opinion (thought, estimation)

Derived terms

Further reading

• “opinion” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Middle French

Etymology

From Latin op?ni?.

Noun

opinion f (plural opinions)

1. opinion (thought, estimation)

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Latin op?ni?, via French opinion

Noun

opinion m (definite singular opinionen, indefinite plural opinioner, definite plural opinionene)

1. (public) opinion

Derived terms

• folkeopinion

References

• “opinion” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Latin op?ni?, via French opinion

Noun

opinion m (definite singular opinionen, indefinite plural opinionar, definite plural opinionane)

1. (public) opinion

Derived terms

• folkeopinion

References

• “opinion” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Occitan

Etymology

From Latin op?ni?.

Pronunciation

Noun

opinion f (plural opinions)

1. opinion

   Synonym: vejaire

English

Etymology

Coined by Thomas Henry Huxley in 1870. Either from Ancient Greek ???????? (ágn?stos, “ignorant, not knowing”). Or from a- +? Gnostic, deriving (either way) from Ancient Greek ?- (a-, “not”) + ???????? (gign?sk?, “I know”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /a??n?st?k/
• (US) IPA^(key): /æ??n?st?k/
• Rhymes: -?st?k

Adjective

agnostic (comparative more agnostic, superlative most agnostic)

1. Of or relating to agnosticism or its adherents.

2. Doubtful or uncertain about the existence or demonstrability of God or other deity.

3. (computing) Of a software component etc.: unaware or noncommittal regarding the specific nature of the components or input with which it interacts.

4. (usually with a prepositional phrase) Having no firmly held opinions on an issue or matter of uncertainty.

Hyponyms

• view agnostic (computing)

Related terms

Translations

Noun

agnostic (plural agnostics)

1. A person who holds to a form of agnosticism, especially uncertainty of the existence of a deity.

Coordinate terms

• deist

Translations

See also

• atheist
• sceptic (Mainly UK & Commonwealth), skeptic (Mainly US)
• Appendix:Glossary of philosophical isms

References

• Agnosticism on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Costigan, angio-CTs, coasting, coatings, cotingas, scoating

Romanian

Etymology

From French agnostique

Noun

agnostic m (plural agnostici)

1. agnostic

Declension