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pangnostic

pangnostic noun: someone who has total knowledge.

Noun

pangnostic (plural pangnostics)

  1. Someone who has total knowledge.
    • 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

Forms of pangnostic

pluralpangnostics

Origin of pangnostic

From pan- + gnosis.

Questions about pangnostic

What does pangnostic mean?
Pangnostic means someone who has total knowledge.
What part of speech is pangnostic?
Pangnostic is a noun.
What is the plural of pangnostic?
The plural of pangnostic is pangnostics.

Words near pangnostic in the dictionary

  1. Panglossian
  2. Panglossianism
  3. Panglossic
  4. Pangnirtung
  5. pangnosis
  6. pangnostic
  7. pangnostics
  8. Pango Pango
  9. pangola grass
  10. pangolin
  11. pangolins

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