paragnosis

English

Noun

paragnosis (countable and uncountable, plural paragnoses)

  1. Knowledge which can only be gained through extraordinary or supernatural means.
    • 1951, Charles Wicksteed Armstrong, Road to Happiness: A New Ideology, page 185:
      Therefore paragnosis may be accepted as a scientific fact, and telepathy, operating as I have suggested, through the common subconsciousness of humanity, is the most reasonable hypothesis to explain paragnosis.
    • 1962, Tomorrow, volume 10, page 45:
      Paragnosis, for example, seems like a practical place to start. We already know for sure that there is such a faculty.
    • 2004, Raymond Buckland, The Fortune-telling Book: The Encyclopedia of Divination and Soothsaying‎:
      Extrasensory Perception, PSI, paragnosis, or ESP as it is more generally known, is accepted by many as fact.
    • 2012, Alexandr Romanovich Luria, Higher Cortical Functions in Man‎, page 496:
      They cannot inhibit this tendency, so that when presented with the next word they respond with characteristic “paragnoses,” i.e., they continue to give it the same meaning as the preceding word.
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