gnosis

1. 1.

   intuitive knowledge of spiritual truths; said to have been possessed by ancient Gnostics

   Broaderintuition

Other forms of gnosis

plural

gnoses

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about gnosis

What does gnosis mean?

gnosis means "intuitive knowledge of spiritual truths; said to have been possessed by ancient Gnostics".

How many syllables are in gnosis?

gnosis has 2 syllables: gno-sis. The stress falls on "gno".

Is gnosis a common word?

gnosis is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.