cognizance
Meaning of cognizance
- knowledge or awareness.
the Renaissance cognizance of Greece was limited
- a distinctive emblem or badge formerly worn by retainers of a noble house.
Middle English conisance, from Old French conoisance, based on Latin cognoscere ‘get to know’. The spelling with g, influenced by Latin, arose in the 15th century and gradually affected the pronunciation.
Information about cognizance
- It is a name.
- The plural form of cognizance is: cognizances.
- Languages in which cognizance is used:
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Hyphenation of cognizance
cog-nizance
- It consists of 2 syllables and 10 chars.
- cognizance is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
cognizance synonyms
Meaning awareness:
awareness, consciousness, knowingness
Meaning ken:
Meaning the fact of observing or paying attention to something:
Meaning awareness or familiarity gained by experience of a fact or situation:
Meaning understanding; grasp:
Meaning awareness of something through the senses:
Meaning an act of becoming fully aware of something as a fact:
Meaning acknowledgement of the existence, validity, or legality of something:
Meaning a full understanding of a situation:
Words that rhyme with cognizance
ance, saance, absorbance, bobance, disturbance, indisturbance, nondisturbance, perturbance, predisturbance, reprobance, undisturbance, impeccance, insignificance, nonsignificance, omnisignificance, presignificance, scance, signficance, significance, vacance, Sundance, abidance, abondance, abundance, accordance, adance, aidance, appendance, ascendance, attendance, avoidance, biddance, breakdance, clogdance, concordance, condordance, contradance, contredance, counterdance, dance, dependance, descendance, disaccordance, discordance, disregardance, exceedance, exundance, forbiddance, foreguidance, guidance