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pansophy

[ pan-suh-fee ]

noun

  1. universal wisdom or knowledge.


pansophy

/ pænˈsɒfɪk; ˈpænsəfɪ /

noun

  1. universal knowledge
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Derived Forms

  • 貹ˈDZ󾱳, adverb
  • pansophic, adjective
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Other Word Forms

  • 貹·DZ· [pan-, sof, -ik], 貹·DZi· adjective
  • 貹·DZi··ly adverb
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Word History and Origins

Origin of pansophy1

First recorded in 1635–45; pan- + -sophy
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Word History and Origins

Origin of pansophy1

C17: from New Latin pansophia; see pan- , -sophy
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Philosophy she lacked, but theosophy, which is a pansophy, she possessed—when she did not need it.

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Next in importance to pansophy or encyclopædism, and closely connected with it, is the principle that a knowledge of words and of things should go hand in hand.

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German philosophers made ready to seize upon it with huge mental biceps and labor to incorporate it beneficently into the Teuton pansophy.

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