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Definition: Cogency |
CogencyNoun1. Persuasive relevance. 2. The quality of being logically valid. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "cogency" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1686. (references) |
Note: Cogency \Co"gen*cy\, noun. [See Cogent.]. (Websters 1913) |
Synonyms: CogencySynonyms: rigor (n), rigour (n), validity (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Demonstration | Conviction, cogency, (persuasion). |
Power | Ability; ableness; Adjective: competency; efficacy; efficiency, productivity, expertise (skill) ; validity, cogency; enablement; vantage ground; influence. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Cogency |
| English words defined with "cogency": invalid. (references) |
| "Cogency" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Cogency" is used about 38 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 38 | 55,818 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
cogency | 12 |
cogency software | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "cogency"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | forcë bindëse, bindje (amenability, assurance, assuredness, conformity, conviction, docility, expostulation, obedience, persuasion, politics, suasion, submission). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | قوة الحجة, القدرة على الإقناع (persuasibility). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | състоятелност, неопровержимост. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | přesvìdèivost (persuasiveness, strength). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | قدرت عقیده , زیرکی (Agility, Brilliance, Cunning, Intelligence, Perspicacity, Sagacity, Subtlety), ضرورت (Exigency, Necessity, Urgency), اجبار (Coercion, Compulsion, Constraint, Duress, Persuasion). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | puissance, force pour convaincre. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | zwingende kraft, überzeugungskraft (forcefulness, persuasion, persuasiveness, power of persuasion). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | πειστικότησ (persuasiveness, suasiveness), πειστικότητα (persuasion, suasiveness), δύναμη επιχειρήματοσ. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | כוח שכ וע. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | kényszer (coercion, compulsion, constraint, duress, force, pressure, urge), hathatóság (efficacy, efficiency, potency). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | daya yakin. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | forza di persuasione, efficacia (effectiveness, efficacy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | niart (abundance, drastic, force, much, power, strength, validity, vehemence, weight of a blow), lajerys (force, headiness, prowess, richness, strength). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ogencycay peso (brunt, burden, heaviness, heft, load, plummet, pressure, weight), irrefutabilidade, força de convicção. (various references) forţã a unui argument (strength of an argument). (various references) убедительность (assertiveness, cogence, persuasiveness). (various references) ubedljivost (persuasiveness). (various references) fuerza lógica, fuerza (boldness, clout, constraint, force, forging, heaviness, intensity, juice, kick, loudness, might, mightiness, onrush, pithiness, power, pressure, punch, stiffness, strength, stress, vigour, weight), evidencia (accessible evidence, blatancy, evidence, obviousness, palpability). (various references) övertygning. (various references) การโน้มน้าว (cajoling). (various references) inandırıcılık (conclusiveness, demonstrativeness, persuasiveness, powers of persuasion), ikna yeteneği (gift of persuasion, persuasiveness, powers of persuasion). (various references) незаперечність (indisputability), переконливість (persuasion, persuasiveness, stringency), переконливий доказ. (various references) sự vững chắc (solidity, stability, staunchness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"Cogency" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: cogen, cogenct, cogens, congenic. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "cogency" (pronounced kō"junsē) |
| 5 | -j u n s ē | agency, contingency, counterinsurgency, emergency, exigency, insurgency, interagency, nonemergency, regency, stringency, urgency. |
| 4 | -u n s ē | absorbency, accountancy, ascendancy, ascendency, buoyancy, clemency, competency, complacency, Conservancy, consistency, constancy, constituency, consultancy, currency, decency, deficiency, delinquency, dependency, despondency, discrepancy, dormancy, efficiency, equivalency, excellency, expectancy, expediency, fluency, frequency, hesitancy, immunodeficiency, incompetency, inconsistency, inconstancy, incumbency, indecency, inefficiency, infancy, infrequency, insolvency, irrelevancy, latency, leniency, malignancy, militancy, occupancy, poignancy, potency, pregnancy, presidency, proficiency, redundancy, relevancy, residency, resiliency, solvency, stridency, sufficiency, tenancy, tendency, transparency, truancy, vacancy, vagrancy, vibrancy. |
| 3 | -n s ē | bouncy, chancy, deviancy, fancy, fiancee, mincy, Nancy, necromancy, teensy. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-c-e-g-n-o-y" | |
-2 letters: coney, conge. | |
-3 letters: cone, cony, gone, once. | |
-4 letters: cog, con, coy, ego, eng, eon, gen, gey, goy, nog, one, yen, yon. | |
-5 letters: en, go, ne, no, oe, on, oy, ye, yo. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-c-e-g-n-o-y" | |
+1 letter: coagency. | |
+2 letters: cryogenic. | |
+3 letters: congruency, cryogenics, cyanogenic. | |
+4 letters: contingency, convergency, cryptogenic, cytogenetic, gynecocracy, gynecologic, psychogenic, reoccupying. | |
+5 letters: bodychecking, cockneyfying, concealingly, conveyancing, cyanogenetic, cyclogeneses, cyclogenesis, cytogenetics, gerontocracy, gynecocratic, oncogenicity, preoccupying. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)43 6F 67 65 6E 63 79 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.-. --- --. . -. -.-. -.--. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000011 01101111 01100111 01100101 01101110 01100011 01111001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)C o g e n c y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0043 006F 0067 0065 006E 0063 0079 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)37817371806991 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage Frequency | 5. Expressions: Internet 6. Translations: Modern 7. Derivations 8. Rhymes | 9. Anagrams 10. Orthography 11. Bibliography |
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