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Etymology
From pan- + gnosis.
Noun
pangnosis (countable and uncountable, plural pangnoses)
- The capacity to know everything; omniscience.
1908, Marcus Hitch, “Dietzgenism”, in International Socialist Review, volume 8:If Spencer and his followers are correctly called agnostics, then we should call Dietzgen a pangnostic. He knows it all.
1887, William Preston Johnston, “Education in Louisiana”, in Proceedings of the National Education Association: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.
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