Agnosis

//æɡˈnəʊsɪs// noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Epistemologically necessary lack of, indifference to, denial or shunning of knowledge; defective knowledge. countable, uncountable

    "And finally, we come to the agnosis, the most important of them all, […] I do not refer to the agnosis or the ignorance of cancer in general."

Synonyms

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agnosticismagnosticism

Antonyms

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gnosis

Example

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"And finally, we come to the agnosis, the most important of them all, […] I do not refer to the agnosis or the ignorance of cancer in general."

Etymology

Derived from Ancient Greek ἀ- (a-, “without, lacking”) + γνῶσις (gnôsis, “knowledge”), literally, “lacking knowledge”.

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