say it: NAH-sti-siz-uhm
gnosticism is a noun meaning "a religious orientation advocating gnosis as the way to release a person's spiritual element; considered heresy by Christian churches". It carries one recorded sense.
a religious orientation advocating gnosis as the way to release a person's spiritual element; considered heresy by Christian churches
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for gnosticism come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.