Pansophy

Word of the Day for Thursday, November 10, 2011

pansophy \PAN-suh-fee\, noun:

Universal wisdom or knowledge.

For just at the moment Baconfield had come to perceive the divine formulae that dictate, in darkness, the world's apparent randomness, just when the thumbmarks on his walls comprised an exhilarating pansophy and he stood poised on the verge of omniscience, an uncircumscribable chaos has swept into his life.
-- Rikki Ducornet, The Jade Cabinet

Wade had somehow managed to fuse the lightning-bolt pansophy of our visionary past with a single-minded perspicacity befitting the finest of the experimental methods...
-- Konrad Ventana, A Desperado's Daily Bread

From the Greek, pansophy is comprised of the root words pan meaning “all” and sophy meaning “wisdom.”

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