intellectual humility
CEFR: C2
A cognitive mindset of recognizing the limits of one's knowledge and being genuinely open to revising beliefs.
Synonyms
- epistemic modesty
- open-mindedness
Common Collocations
- cultivate intellectual humility
- display intellectual humility
- virtue of intellectual humility
Example Sentence
Effective scientific research demands intellectual humility when confronted by contradictory empirical findings.