Cognizance

Definition: Cognizance

Cognizance

Noun

1. Having knowledge of; "he had no awareness of his mistakes"; "his sudden consciousness of the problem he faced"; "their intelligence and general knowingness was impressive".

2. Range of what one can know or understand; "beyond my ken".

3. Range or scope of what is perceived.

Date "cognizance" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references)

Synonyms: Cognizance

Synonyms: awareness (n), consciousness (n), ken (n), knowingness (n). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Attention	Verb: be attentive; Adjective: attend, advert to, observe, look, see, view, remark, notice, regard, take notice, mark; give attention to, pay attention to, pay heed to, give heed to; incline an ear to, lend an ear to; trouble one's head about; give a thought to, animadvert to; occupy oneself with; contemplate; (think of); look at, look to, look after, look into, look over; see to; turn the mind to, bend the mind to, apply the mind to, direct the mind to, give the mind to, turn the eye to, bend the eye to, apply the eye to, direct the eye to, give the eye to, turn the attention to, bend the attention to, apply the attention to, direct the attention to, give the attention to; have an eye to, have in one's eye; bear in mind; take into account, take into consideration; keep in sight, keep in view; have regard to, heed, mind, take cognizance of entertain, recognize; make note of, take note of; note.
Identification	Noun: identification, recognition, diagnosis, match; apperception, assimilation; dereplication; classification; memory; interpretation; cognizance (knowledge).
Intellect	Verb: note, notice, mark; take notice of, take cognizance of be aware of, be conscious of; realize; appreciate; ruminate; (think); fancy; (imagine).
Knowledge	Noun: knowledge; cognizance, cognition, cognoscence; acquaintance, experience, ken, privity, insight, familiarity; comprehension, apprehension; recognition; appreciation; (judgment); intuition; conscience, consciousness; perception, precognition; acroamatics.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Cognizance

English words defined with "cognizance": Appelate court ♦ Circuit court, Cognoscence, Connusance, Cosmothetic idealists, Court of chivalry, Court of Peculiars, Crown office ♦ Debt of record ♦ Greencloth ♦ Knight marshal ♦ Privity ♦ To fall under, Triable. (references)

Specialty definitions using "cognizance": Feathers. (references)

Etymologies containing "cognizance": Cognizant, Cognizor, Cognoscence. (references)

Domain	Title
Books	Life Love Hope: A Philosophy Which Leads to Cognizance (reference) (more book examples)

Music	Tru Cognizance (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Speaker	Term	Phrase(s)
Andrew Jackson	1829-1837	Since the last session of Congress numerous frauds on the Treasury have been discovered, which I thought it my duty to bring under the cognizance of the United States court for this district by a criminal prosecution.
Jimmy Carter	1977-1981	As public policy is developed and implemented by the Federal government, cognizance of the work of the Conference should be taken as a pragmatic and essential step.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

"Cognizance" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Cognizance" is used about 20 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%	20	78,262

Expressions using "cognizance": beyond cognizance ♦ cognizance knowledge ♦ have cognizance of ♦ take cognizance of. Additional references.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; 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.

Language		Translations for "cognizance"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		përgjegjësi (accountability, blame, charge, fault, hand, hands, onus, responsibility), kompetencë gjyqi, dieni. (various references)

Arabic		‏معرفة (acquaintance, awareness, cognition, conversance, education, erudition, familiarity, information, knowing, knowledge, learning, lore, scholarship), ‏علم (adudicate, advertise, advertize, advise, apprise, apprize, banner, bar, bunting, coach, cognize, drill, educate, flag, indoctrinate, inform, instruct, know, knowledge, learning, let know, locate, mark, mark out, notify, post, profess, read, scholarship, school, science, standard, teach, tell, tick), ‏إدراك (appreciation, apprehension, comprehension, conception, grasp, intelligence, knowledge, maturity, puberty, pubescence, realization, reason, recognition, responsiveness, savvy, science, sense, senses, sensibilities, sensibility, smart, understanding). (various references)

Bulgarian		юрисдикция (spirituality), компетенция (capacity, competence, competency, province, purview, reference, scope), компетентност (ability, competence, competency, jurisdiction, province, purview), герб (armorial, arms, blazon, blazonry, emblazonry, escutcheon, obverse), осведоменост (awareness, conversance, information, privity), отличителен знак (note, stamp, trademark), знание (cognition, familiarity, information, knowing, knowledge, notion, privity, wisdom), емблема (allegory, device, emblem, insignia, star, symbol, totem). (various references)

Czech		poznání (cognition, knowledge, realization, recognition). (various references)

Dutch		akte nemen (to record formally, to take legal cognizance), acte nemen (to record formally, to take legal cognizance). (various references)

Farsi		معرفت (Cognition, Knowledge, Letter, Wisdom), تصدیق ضمنی , اگاهی (Acquaintance, Advice, Dope, Idea, Immediacy, Inkling, Intelligence, Knowledge, Perception), ادراک (Cognition, Hindsight, Impression, Notion, Perception, Realization, Scent, Understanding, Uptake), شناساءی (Identity, Recognition, Reconnaissance). (various references)

Finnish		kirjata pöytäkirjaan (to record formally, to take legal cognizance). (various references)

French		connaissance (cognition, consciousness), ressort, prenant acte de. (various references)

German		erkenntnis (cognition, decision, discovery, finding, insight, knowledge, realization, recognition, verdict). (various references)

Greek		γνώση (awareness, cognisance, cognition, knowledge, learning, sense), ενημερότησ (awareness), ενημερότητα (awareness), αρμοδιότητα (activity, appropriateness, aptitude, competence, domain, eligibility, fitness, jurisdiction, propriety, province, relevance, relevancy, suitability), δικαιοδοσία (jurisdiction, province). (various references)

Hungarian		megismerés (cognition, recognition), tudomás (awareness, knowledge, notice, privity), megkülönböztető jelzés, jelvény (badge, ensign, favor, favour, insignia), felfogás (apprehension, approach, comprehension, conception, penetration, perception, realization, sense, uptake), észlelés (cognition, detection, location, observation, perception, pick up, sighting). (various references)

Indonesian		pengamatan (cognition, monitoring, supervision). (various references)

Italian		conoscenza sicura. (various references)

Japanese Kanji		認識 (recognition). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		に�"しき (recognition). (various references)

Manx		raanteenys (bailment, security, sponsorship, underwriting), oalys (instinct, science, spell), fys (advice, cognition, information, intelligence, intimation, knowledge, notice, notification, science, sixth sense). (various references)

Pig Latin		ognizancecay

Portuguese		conhecimento (acquaintance, attainment, awareness, background, cognition, command, conscious, consciousness, conversance, familiarity, friend, idea, information, insight, instruction, intelligence, know, knowing, knowledge, learning, light, lore, manifest, perception, privity, scholarship, science), competência (ability, address, adeptness, aptness, authority, capacity, competency, jurisdiction, proficiency, province, qualification, scope), jurisdição (authority, district, energy, jurisdiction, power, province, verge), insígnia (badge, banner, emblem, ensign, insignia). (various references)

Romanian		cunoştinţã (acquaintance, attainment, consciousness, notice), competenţã (ability, authority, capacity, competence, efficiency, expertness, fitness, jurisdiction, province, purview, reference, scope), semn distinctiv (cachet, distinguishing mark, ear-mark, label, Mark). (various references)

Russian		знание (adeptness, cognition, knowing, knowledge, lore). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		suđenje (judgement, session, trial), spoznaja (cognition, comprehension), razumevanje (apprehension, comprehension, intellection, savvy, understanding), priznanje (accolade, acknowledgement, avowal, confession, ladle-out honors, recognition, tribute). (various references)

Spanish		conocimiento (acquaintance, acquaintanceship, awareness, consciousness, conversance, conviction, enquiry, expedition, fame, familiarity, glory, knowing, knowledge, light, privity, shipping bill). (various references)

Swedish		kännedom (acquaintance, attention, awareness, knowledge, understanding). (various references)

Thai		การตระหนักรู้, ความรู้ความเข้าใจ. (various references)

Turkish		mahkemenin davayı dinlemesi, kaza alanı, kavrama (apperception, apprehension, bite, chuck, cinch, clasp, claw, clutch, cognation, comprehension, conception, digestion, engaging, fathom, grasp, grip, gripping, insight, penetration, perception, prehension, seizing, understanding, uptake), idrak (apperception, appreciation, cognation, comprehension, consciousness, discernment, grasp, grip, intelligence, nous, perception, percipience, perspicacity, realization), farkında olma (awareness), bilgi (acquaintance, conveyance, data, dope, Gen, gleanings, Griff, griffin, info, information, inside dope, instructions, intelligence, know how, knowledge, learning, line, lore, notice, report, savvy, word), anlayış (apprehension, comprehension, discernment, horizon, intelligence, mentality, percipience, sagacity, savvy, sensibility, understanding). (various references)

Ukrainian		юрисдикція (jurisdiction), компетенція (attribution, capacity, purview), відмітний знак (trademark), знання (acquirements, art, attainments, cognition, experiences, knowing, knowledge), емблема (badge, blazon, colors, colours, emblem). (various references)

Vietnamese		sự hiểu biết (intellection, savvy, understanding, wisdom). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	cognoscere. (various references)
Old French	900-1400	conissance. (various references)
Anglo-French	1100-1600	conysance. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "cognizance": cognizances. (additional references)
	Words ending with "cognizance": incognizance, recognizance. (additional references)
	Words containing "cognizance": incognizances, recognizances. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Cognizance" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: cognicance, cognisan, cognisance, cognizan, conusance. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "cognizance" (pronounced kÄ"gnuzuns)
6	-n u z u n s	recognizance.
4	-z u n s	Defeasance, malfeasance, omnipresence, presence.
3	-u n s	abeyance, abhorrence, absence, abstinence, abundance, acceptance, accordance, acquaintance, acquiescence, adherence, admirations, admittance, adolescence, affluence, allegiance, alliance, allowance, ambiance, ambience, ambivalence, ambulance, annoyance, appearance, appliance, arrogance, ascendance, assistance, assurance, attendance, audience, avoidance, balance, belligerence, beneficence, benevolence, bioscience, brilliance, cadence, capacitance, chrominance, circumference, clairvoyance, Clarence, clearance, coexistence, coherence, coincidence, coinsurance, comeuppance, competence, compliance, concurrence, condolence, conference, confidence, confluence, conformance, congruence, connivance, conscience, consequence, consistence, continuance, contrivance, convalescence, convenience, convergence, conveyance, correspondence, countenance, counterbalance, counterintelligence, credence, dalliance, decadence, deference, defiance, deliverance, dependence, deterrence, deviance, difference, diligence, disallowance, disappearance, discontinuance, disobedience, dissidence, dissonance, distance, disturbance, divergence, dominance, ebullience, elegance, eloquence, emergence, eminence, endurance, entrance, equivalence, essence, evanescence, evidence, excellence, existence, expedience, experience, extravagance, exuberance, flamboyance, Florence, forbearance, fragrance, furtherance, governance, grievance, guidance, hindrance, ignorance, imbalance, immanence, imminence, impatience, impedance, importance, impotence, imprudence, inadvertence, incidence, incoherence, incompetence, incontinence, inconvenience, independence, indifference, inductance, indulgence, inexperience, inference, influence, inheritance, innocence, insignificance, insistence, insolence, instance, insurance, intelligence, interdependence, interference, intolerance, intransigence, invariance, irrelevance, irreverence, issuance, jurisprudence, licence, license, luminance, luminescence, maintenance, negligence, neuroscience, noncompliance, noninterference, nonviolence, nuisance, obedience, observance, obsolescence, occurrence, omnipotence, opulence, ordinance, Ordnance, overabundance, overconfidence, overdependence, overreliance, parlance, patience, penance, performance, permanence, persecutions, perseverance, persistence, pestilence, petulance, phosphorescence, pittance, precedence, predominance, preeminence, preference, preponderance, prescience, prevalence, prominence, protuberance, provenance, Providence, province, prudence, pseudoscience, quintessence, radiance, reappearance, reassurance, recalcitrance, reconnaissance, recurrence, reemergence, reference, reinspections, reinsurance, relevance, reliance, reluctance, remembrance, reminiscence, remittance, repentance, resemblance, residence, resilience, resistance, resonance, resurgence, reticence, reverence, riddance, science, semblance, senescence, sentence, sequence, severance, significance, silence, submergence, subservience, subsidence, subsistence, substance, surveillance, sustenance, teleconference, temperance, tolerance, transcendence, transference, transience, turbulence, unbalance, utterance, Valence, variance, vehemence, vengeance, videoconference, vigilance, violence, virulence.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-c-c-e-g-i-n-n-o-z"
	-2 letters: canoeing, canonize, cozening.
	-3 letters: agonize, canonic, canzone, canzoni, cocaine, cognize, coinage, oceanic, zingano.
	-4 letters: aeonic, agnize, agonic, ancone, azonic, canine, caning, cannie, cocain, cognac, coigne, conine, coning, encina, eonian, incage, nonage, zoecia, zoning.
	-5 letters: acing, agone, ancon, anion, azine, azoic, canoe, canon, coign, conga, conge, conic, conin, cozen, cozie, genic, genoa, gonia, inane, incog.
	Words containing the letters "a-c-c-e-g-i-n-n-o-z"
	+1 letter: cognizances.
	+2 letters: incognizance, recognizance.
	+3 letters: incognizances, recognizances.
	+5 letters: conceptualizing, occidentalizing.
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