pangnostic

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noun

Someone who has total knowledge.

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Meanings

nounpangnostic (plural pangnostics)

plural pangnostics

  1. Someone who has total knowledge.

    If Spencer and his followers are correctly called agnostics, then we should call Dietzgen a pangnostic. He knows it all.

    1908, Marcus Hitch, “Dietzgenism”, in International Socialist Review, volume 8
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    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.

    1887, William Preston Johnston, “Education in Louisiana”, in Proceedings of the National Education Association

Origin

From pan- + gnosis.

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APA

pangnostic. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/pangnostic

MLA

“pangnostic.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/pangnostic. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “pangnostic,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/pangnostic.

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