cognizance
Other forms: cognizances
When you have cognizance, you have knowledge of something. Your cognizance of the English language is growing with every new vocabulary word you learn. Just don't flaunt your cognizance too much, or your friends might call you a know-it-all.
Cognizance can be used to refer to more than just school-based learning (like vocabulary words). It can also mean that you have awareness or notice certain things. Your cognizance of where the exits are located in the movie theater could save your life in a fire. The noun cognizance can also refer to your state of consciousness: "You passed out from the smoke, but when you woke up you had the cognizance to know who you were and where you were."
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the state of having knowledge ofsynonyms: awareness, cognisance, consciousness, knowingnessantonyms:incognizancea lack of knowledge or recognitiontypes:self-awarenessawareness of your own individualityfeelan intuitive awarenesssensea general conscious awarenessbearing, orientationa person's awareness of self with regard to position and time and place and personal relationshipsself-consciousnessself-awareness plus the additional realization that others are similarly aware of yousense of directionan awareness of your orientation in spacesense of responsibilityan awareness of your obligationstype of:knowinga clear and certain mental apprehension
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range of what one can know or understand
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range or scope of what is perceivedtype of:perceptionknowledge gained by perceiving
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Vocabulary lists containing cognizance
As languages change, so do pronunciations. Here are some words that have gone through relatively recent shifts in pronunciation or whose spelling is a mystery unless one knows a bit about the history of how they were pronounced. There are also a few words where the only thing that has changed is the stress of the syllables. In most cases, rhyming words or phrases, which are just useful for their sound and are not intended to mean anything, are given to provide a sense of how these different pronunciations sounded.
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