Gnosis
[noh-sis] /ˈnoʊ sɪs/
noun
1.
knowledge of spiritual matters; mystical knowledge.
1.
a combining form meaning “knowledge,” used in the formation of compound words:
prognosis.
/ˈnəʊsɪs/
noun (pl) -ses (-siːz)
1.
supposedly revealed knowledge of various spiritual truths, esp that said to have been possessed by ancient Gnostics
combining form
1.
(esp in medicine) recognition or knowledge: prognosis, diagnosis
n.
“special knowledge of spiritual mysteries,” 1703, from Greek gnosis “investigation, knowledge,” in Christian writers, “higher knowledge of spiritual things” (see gnostic (adj.)).
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