GNOSIS

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

Irregular inflected form: gnoses   

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Intuitive knowledge of spiritual truths; said to have been possessed by ancient Gnostics

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Hypernyms ("gnosis" is a kind of...):

intuition (instinctive knowing (without the use of rational processes))

Derivation:

gnostic (possessing intellectual or esoteric knowledge of spiritual things)

Gnostic (of or relating to Gnosticism)

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