Gnosticism

See also: gnosticism

English

Etymology

Gnostic +‎ -ism

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈnɒstɪsɪzəm/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈnɑstəsɪzəm/

Noun

Gnosticism (countable and uncountable, plural Gnosticisms)

1. A wide variety of Jewish and early Christian sects having an interest in gnosis, or divine knowledge, and generally holding the belief that there is a god greater than the Demiurge, or the creator of the world.
   • 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 31:

     Another contemporary scholar of Gnosticism, C. G. Jung, has taken this notion of the twin ray and applied it to his own model of the contrasexual nature of the self.

Translations

Gnosticism

• Albanian: gnosticizëm m
• Arabic: غُنُّوصِيَّة‎ f (ḡunnūṣiyya), عِرْفَانِيَّة‎ f (ʕirfāniyya)
• Aragonese: gnostizismo m
• Armenian: գնոստիցիզմ (hy) (gnosticʿizm), գնոստիկություն (hy) (gnostikutʿyun)
• Belarusian: гнастыцызм ? (hnastycyzm)
• Bulgarian: гностици́зъм m (gnosticízǎm)
• Catalan: gnosticisme m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 諾斯底主義／诺斯底主义 (nok⁶ si¹ dai² zyu² ji⁶)

  Mandarin: 諾斯底主義／诺斯底主义 (Nuòsīdǐ zhǔyì)

• Czech: gnosticismus m, gnóze f
• Danish: gnosticisme (da) c
• Dutch: gnosticisme (nl) n
• Esperanto: gnostikismo
• Finnish: gnostilaisuus (fi)
• French: gnosticisme (fr) m
• German: Gnostizismus m
• Greek: γνωστικισμός (el) m (gnostikismós)
• Hebrew: גְּנוֹסְטִיקָה‎ f (gnostiqa)
• Hungarian: gnoszticizmus (hu)
• Interlingua: gnosticismo
• Italian: gnosticismo m
• Japanese: グノーシス主義 (グノーシスしゅぎ, gunōshisu shugi)
• Kazakh: гностицизм (gnostisizm)
• Korean: 영지주의 (yeongjijuui)
• Latvian: gnosticisms m
• Lithuanian: gnosticizmas m
• Macedonian: гностицизам ? (gnosticizam)
• Norwegian: gnostisisme m
• Persian: گنوستیسیزم‎ (gnostisizm), غنوصی‎ (ğnusi)
• Polish: gnostycyzm (pl) m
• Portuguese: gnosticismo (pt) m
• Romanian: gnosticism (ro) n
• Russian: гностици́зм (ru) m (gnosticízm)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: гностицѝзам m

  Roman: gnosticìzam (sh) m

• Slovene: gnosticizem (sl) m
• Spanish: gnosticismo m
• Swedish: gnosticism (sv) c
• Tagalog: nostisismo
• Turkish: gnostisizm (tr)
• Ukrainian: гностицизм m (hnostycyzm)
• Urdu: معرفت‎ (ur)

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