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geognosis

geognosis noun: knowledge of the Earth.

Noun

geognosis (uncountable)

  1. Knowledge of the Earth.
    • No, he has no bent towards exploration, or the enlargement of our geognosis: that would be a special purpose which I could recognize with some approbation, though without felicitating him on a career which so often ends in premature and violent death. But so far is he from having any desire for a...1871-72, George Eliot, Middlemarch

Origin of geognosis

See geognosy.

Questions about geognosis

What does geognosis mean?
Geognosis means knowledge of the Earth.
What part of speech is geognosis?
Geognosis is a noun.

Words near geognosis in the dictionary

  1. Geoghegans
  2. geoglossaceous
  3. geoglyph
  4. geoglyphic
  5. geoglyphs
  6. geognosis
  7. geognosist
  8. geognosists
  9. geognost
  10. geognostic
  11. geognostical

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