| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person's understanding; information |
| Synonyms: | ability, accomplishments, acquaintance, apprehension, attainments, awareness, cognition, comprehension, consciousness, dirt*, discernment, doctrine, dogma, dope*, education, enlightenment, erudition, expertise, facts, familiarity, goods*, grasp, inside story, insight, instruction, intelligence, judgment, know-how, learning, light*, lore, observation, philosophy, picture, power*, principles, proficiency, recognition, scholarship, schooling, science, scoop*, substance, theory, tuition, wisdom |
| Antonyms: | ignorance |
| Concept: | Knowledge. |
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-nouns
knowledge; cognizance, cognition, cognoscence; acquaintance, experience, ken, privity, insight, familiarity; comprehension, apprehension; recognition; appreciation (judgment); intuition; conscience, consciousness; perception, precognition; acroamatics., light, enlightenment; glimpse, inkling; glimmer, glimmering; dawn; scent, suspicion; impression (idea); discovery., system of knowledge, body of knowledge; science, philosophy, pansophy; acroama; theory, aetiology; circle of the sciences; pandect, doctrine, body of doctrine; cyclopedia, encyclopedia (encyclopaedia); school (system of opinions)., tree of knowledge; republic of letters (language)., erudition, learning, lore, scholarship, reading, letters; literature; book madness; book learning, bookishness; bibliomania, bibliolatry; information, general information; store of knowledge; education (teaching); culture, menticulture, attainments; acquirements, acquisitions; accomplishments; proficiency; practical knowledge (skill); liberal education; dilettantism; rudiments (beginning)., deep knowledge, profound knowledge, solid knowledge, accurate knowledge, acroatic knowledge, acroamatic knowledge, vast knowledge, extensive knowledge, encyclopedic knowledge, encyclopedic learning; omniscience, pantology., march of intellect; progress of science, advance of science, advance of learning; schoolmaster abroad.
-verbs
know, ken, scan, wot; wot aware, be aware of; ween, weet, trow, have, possess., conceive; apprehend, comprehend; take, realize, understand, savvy [U.S.], appreciate; fathom, make out; recognize, discern, perceive, see, get a sight-of, experience., know full well; have some knowledge of, possess some knowledge of; be au courant; have in one's head, have at one's fingertips; know by heart, know by rote; be master of; connaître le dessous des cartes, know what's what [more]., see one's way; discover., come to one's knowledge (information) [more].
-adjectives
knowing; cognitive; acromatic., aware of, cognizant of, conscious of; acquainted with, made acquainted with; privy to, no stranger to; au fait, au courant; in the secret; up to, alive to; behind the scenes, behind the curtain; let into; apprized of, informed of; undeceived., proficient with, versed with, read with, forward with, strong with, at home in; conversant with, familiar with.
-adverbs
to one's knowledge, to the best of one's knowledge.
-phrases
one's eyes being opened (disclosure) [more]; ompredre tout c'est tout pardonner [French: to know all is to pardon all]; empta dolore docet experientia;; "half our knowledge we must snatch not take" [Pope]; Jahre lehren mehr als Bucher [German: years teach more than books]; "knowledge comes but wisdom lingers" [Tennyson]; "knowledge is power" [Bacon]; les affaires font les hommes; nec scire fas est omnia [Horace]; "the amassed thought and experience of innumerable minds"
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| Antonyms: | ignorance |
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| Main Entry: | appreciation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | recognition of worth |
| Synonyms: | admiration, aesthetic sense, affection, appraisal, assessment, attraction, awareness, cognizance, commendation, comprehension, enjoyment, esteem, estimation, grasp, high regard, knowledge, liking, love, perception, realization, recognition, regard, relish, respect, responsivenesss, sensibility, sensitiveness, sensitivity, sympathy, understanding, valuation |
| Main Entry: | apprehension |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | understanding |
| Synonyms: | awareness, comprehension, grasp, idea, intellect, intelligence, judgment, ken, knowledge, notion, perception, perspicacity, thought |
| Antonyms: | imperception, misunderstanding |
| Main Entry: | art |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | skill, creativity |
| Synonyms: | adroitness, aptitude, artistry, craft, craftsmanship, dexterity, expertise, facility, imagination, ingenuity, inventiveness, knack, know-how, knowledge, mastery, method, profession, trade, virtuosity |
| Antonyms: | lack, unskill |
| Main Entry: | belief |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | putting regard in as true |
| Synonyms: | acceptance, admission, assent, assumption, assurance, avowal, axiom, certainty, conclusion, confidence, conjecture, conviction, credence, credit, deduction, divination, expectation, faith, fancy, feeling, guess, hope, hypothesis, idea, impression, intuition, judgment, knowledge, mind, mindset, notion, opinion, persuasion, position, postulation, presumption, presupposition, profession, reliance, supposition, surmise, suspicion, theorem, theory, thesis, thinking, trust, understanding, view |
| Antonyms: | disbelief |
| Main Entry: | cognizance/cognition |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | understanding |
| Synonyms: | acknowledgment, apprehension, attention, awareness, comprehension, discernment, insight, intelligence, knowledge, mind, need, note, notice, observance, observation, perception, percipience, reasoning, recognition, regard |
| Antonyms: | ignorance, misunderstanding |
| Main Entry: | comprehension |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | understanding |
| Synonyms: | aha, apperception, apprehension, awareness, capacity, cognizance, conception, discernment, double take, grasp, intelligence, judgment, ken, knowledge, perception, prehension, realization, sense, slow take, take* |
| Antonyms: | incomprehension, misinterpretation, mistake, misunderstanding |
| Main Entry: | culture |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | ideas, values of a people |
| Synonyms: | arts and sciences, civilization, convention, customs, development, ethnology, folklore, folkways, grounding, habit, humanism, knowledge, lifestyle, mores, society, the arts, way of life |
| Notes: | culture is acquired by study and application; cultivation is developed by training and exposure |