Noun

(en noun)

A belief that a person has formed about a topic or issue.

I would like to know your opinions on the new systems.

In my opinion , white chocolate is better than milk chocolate.

Every man is a fool in some man's opinion .

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

The judgment or sentiment which the mind forms of persons or things; estimation.

* 1606 , , I. vii. 32:

I have bought golden opinions from all sorts of people.

* South

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

(obsolete) Favorable estimation; hence, consideration; reputation; fame; public sentiment or esteem.

* 1597 , , V. iv. 47:

Thou hast redeemed thy lost opinion .

* Milton

This gained Agricola much opinion , who enterprises.

(obsolete) Obstinacy in holding to one's belief or impression; opiniativeness; conceitedness.

* 1590 , , 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.

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.

(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

Noun

(en noun)

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

* {{quote-magazine, date = 1876-06-01

, first = Leslie , last = Stephen , authorlink = Leslie Stephen , title = An Agnostic's Apology , magazine = The Forthnightly Review , volume = 25/19 , issue = 114 , page = 840 , url = http://books.google.com/books?id=1WVIAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA840 , passage = The Agnostic is one who asserts—what no one denies—that there are limits to the sphere of human intelligence. }}

* {{quote-magazine, date = 1953-11-03

, first = Bertrand , last = Russell , authorlink = Bertrand Russell , title = What is an Agnostic? , magazine = Look , url = http://scepsis.ru/eng/articles/id_5.php , passage = An agnostic thinks it impossible to know the truth in matters such as God and the future life with which Christianity and other religions are concerned. }}

* {{quote-book, year = 1985

, title = Contact: a novel , first = Carl , last = Sagan , authorlink = Carl Sagan , publisher = Simon and Schuster , location = New York , isbn = 978-0671434007 , page = 175 , passage = When I say I'm an agnostic , I only mean that the evidence isn't in. There isn't compelling evidence that God exists — at least your kind of god — and there isn't compelling evidence that he doesn't. }}