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pangnosis

noun

Etymology

Etymology tree Ancient Greek πᾶς (pâs) Ancient Greek πᾰν- (păn-)bor. English pan- Proto-Indo-European *ǵneh₃- Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *ǵneh₃tisder. Ancient Greek γνῶσῐς (gnôsĭs)der. English gnosis English pangnosis From pan- + gnosis.

  1. derived from gnosis English pangnosis From pan- + gnosis
  2. derived from pan- Proto-Indo-European *ǵneh₃- Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *ǵneh₃tisder

Definitions

  1. The capacity to know everything

    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.
    • 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.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for pangnosis. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA