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 and divides as gno-sis under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.