pangnosis
pangnosis noun: the capacity to know everything; omniscience.
Noun
pangnosis (countable and uncountable, plural pangnoses)
- The capacity to know everything; omniscience.
- If Spencer and his followers are correctly called agnostics, then we should call Dietzgen a pangnostic. He knows it all.1908, Marcus Hitch, “Dietzgenism”, in International Socialist Review, volume 8
- I have labelled my grain of sand "Education in Louisiana," lest some among you may mistake me for a Pangnostic, come to teach you some new truth, or the All-Truth which suffices.1887, William Preston Johnston, “Education in Louisiana”, in Proceedings of the National Education Association
- Synonyms:
- omniscience
Synonyms of pangnosis
Forms of pangnosis
| plural | pangnoses |
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Origin of pangnosis
From pan- + gnosis.
Questions about pangnosis
- What does pangnosis mean?
- Pangnosis means the capacity to know everything; omniscience.
- What part of speech is pangnosis?
- Pangnosis is a noun.
- What is the plural of pangnosis?
- The plural of pangnosis is pangnoses.
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