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Meaning of Gnosticism | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2
/ˈnɒstɪsɪzəm/

Definitions

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.

countable, uncountable

Equivalents

العربية عرفانية غنوصية
Deutsch Gnostizismus
Ελληνικά γνωστικισμός
Español gnosticismo
Français gnosticisme
עברית גנוסטיקה
Italiano gnosticismo
한국어 영지주의
Nederlands gnosticisme
Polski gnostycyzm
Português gnosticismo
Русский гностицизм
Svenska gnosticism
Türkçe gnostisizm

Examples

“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.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.

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