agnosy
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 0.00 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Triad above all substance, super-divine and above the good, guide of the Christians into the Divine Wisdom, conducting us to that above agnosy, i.e., the unknowable, to the highest clearness and the super-eminent height"
- "Just as agnosy is the great evil to the Hermetist, so is Parzival's zwivel at the root of all his tribulations."
- "Before man receives the grace of revelation, he lives in agnosy: he does not know God, the gnostic God who is his father and the source of revelation; he does not know himself as the son of God."
- "And then (the man,) delivered as much from that which is seen as from that which sees, penetrates into the true mystic obscurity and darkness of the agnosy;"
- "This "mimic agnosy" will be removed only through very prolonged maturation and learning."
- "Music perception disorders from neurological origin (the 3 levels of musical perception désintégration considered as auditory agnosy)."
Etymology
By surface analysis, a- + -gnosy; diachronically, probably from the same borrowing as agnosia, which see.