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Jul. 06, 2015
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\tel-uh-NOH-sis\
noun
1. supernatural or occult knowledge; clairvoyance.
Quotes
The most common is the so-called sixth sense: telepathy, precognition, telegnosis—"the ability to know that which cannot be ascertained by normal means."
-- Jan Siegel, The Dragon Charmer, 2002
Origin
Telegnosis entered English in the early 1900s as a combination of tele- meaning "transmission over a distance" from the Greek têle meaning "far," and gnosis meaning "knowledge."
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