Origin: Greek suffix -ism
Gnosticism has 3 different meanings across 1 category:
a religious orientation advocating gnosis as the way to release a person's spiritual element; considered heresy by Christian churches
A wide variety of Jewish and early Christian sects having an interest in gnosis, or divine knowledge, and generally holding the belief that there is a god greater than the Demiurge, or the creator of the world.
Alternative form of Gnosticism