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There’s a word for it

This week’s words
cynophobia
phillumenist
virilocal
pathophobia
paragnosis

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PRONUNCIATION:

(par-uh-GNO-sis)

MEANING:

noun: Knowledge that cannot be obtained by normal means.

ETYMOLOGY:

From Greek para- (beyond) + gnosis (knowledge). Earliest documented use: 1933.

USAGE:

“We have lived to the time of the village idiot, when we wisely heed the messages received from the fillings of our teeth. The method here, paragnosis. The voice on the wireless beam his? Whose?”
Michael Joyce; Of Two Minds; University of Michigan Press; 1996.

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