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COGNISANT
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Dictionary entry overview: What does cognisant mean?
• COGNISANT (adjective)
The adjective COGNISANT has 1 sense:
1. (sometimes followed by 'of') having or showing knowledge or understanding or realization or perception
Familiarity information: COGNISANT used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
(sometimes followed by 'of') having or showing knowledge or understanding or realization or perception
Synonyms:
Context example:
aware that he had exceeded the speed limit
Similar:
alert; alive; awake (mentally perceptive and responsive)
conscious ((followed by 'of') showing realization or recognition of something)
sensible (aware intuitively or intellectually of something sensed)
Also:
awake (not in a state of sleep; completely conscious)
witting (aware or knowing)
conscious (knowing and perceiving; having awareness of surroundings and sensations and thoughts)
sensible; sensitive (able to feel or perceive)
Attribute:
awareness; cognisance; cognizance; consciousness; knowingness (having knowledge of)
Derivation:
cognisance (having knowledge of)
cognise (be cognizant or aware of a fact or a specific piece of information; possess knowledge or information about)
Context examples
I suppose I do come on; though in what fashion I know not; being scarcely cognisant of my movements, and solicitous only to appear calm; and, above all, to control the working muscles of my face—which I feel rebel insolently against my will, and struggle to express what I had resolved to conceal.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
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