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GNOSIS (gnoses)
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Irregular inflected form: gnoses
Dictionary entry overview: What does gnosis mean?
• GNOSIS (noun)
The noun GNOSIS has 1 sense:
1. intuitive knowledge of spiritual truths; said to have been possessed by ancient Gnostics
Familiarity information: GNOSIS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
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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