agnostique

from the English agnostic, derived from gnostic by imitation of the ancient Greek ἄγνωστος agnôstos ('ignorant'). thomas henry huxley (1825-1895) created this word to express, as he said, 'the striking antithesis to the 'gnostic' in the history of the church, who professed to know so much about the very things of which I was ignorant...'