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Gnosis vs Ingenuity - What's the difference?

gnosis | ingenuity |

As nouns the difference between gnosis and ingenuity

is that gnosis is gnosis while ingenuity is the ability to solve difficult problems, often in original, clever, and inventive ways.

gnosis

English

Noun

(wikipedia gnosis) (gnoses)
  • (gnosticism) An immanent form of knowledge or transcendent insight, such as sought by the Gnostics.
  • Act or process of knowing.
  • (occult) An altered state of awareness in which the will is magically effective.
  • ingenuity

    English

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • The ability to solve difficult problems, often in original, clever, and inventive ways.
  • The pyramids demonstrate the ingenuity of the ancient Egyptians.
    Poverty is the mother of ingenuity .
    Ingenuity is one of the characteristics of a beaver.
  • Ingenuousness; honesty, straightforwardness.
  • *, II.17:
  • And therefore I apply my selfe to ingenuitie , and ever to speake truth and what I think.

    See also

    * industriousness