KNOWLEDGE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does knowledge mean? 

• KNOWLEDGE (noun)
  The noun KNOWLEDGE has 1 sense:

1. the psychological result of perception and learning and reasoning

  Familiarity information: KNOWLEDGE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• KNOWLEDGE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The psychological result of perception and learning and reasoning

Classified under:

Nouns with no superordinates

Synonyms:

cognition; knowledge; noesis

Hypernyms ("knowledge" is a kind of...):

psychological feature (a feature of the mental life of a living organism)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "knowledge"):

cognitive factor (something immaterial (as a circumstance or influence) that contributes to producing a result)

attitude; mental attitude (a complex mental state involving beliefs and feelings and values and dispositions to act in certain ways)

history (all that is remembered of the past as preserved in writing; a body of knowledge)

information (knowledge acquired through study or experience or instruction)

cognitive content; content; mental object (the sum or range of what has been perceived, discovered, or learned)

structure (the complex composition of knowledge as elements and their combinations)

perception (knowledge gained by perceiving)

process; unconscious process (a mental process that you are not directly aware of)

cognitive operation; cognitive process; mental process; operation; process ((psychology) the performance of some composite cognitive activity; an operation that affects mental contents)

equivalent (a person or thing equal to another in value or measure or force or effect or significance etc)

brain; head; mind; nous; psyche (that which is responsible for one's thoughts, feelings, and conscious brain functions; the seat of the faculty of reason)

practice (knowledge of how something is usually done)

lexicon; mental lexicon; vocabulary (a language user's knowledge of words)

lexis (all of the words in a language; all word forms having meaning or grammatical function)

inability (lack of ability (especially mental ability) to do something)

ability; power (possession of the qualities (especially mental qualities) required to do something or get something done)

episteme (the body of ideas that determine the knowledge that is intellectually certain at any particular time)

general knowledge; public knowledge (knowledge that is available to anyone)

place (an abstract mental location)

 Context examples 

As the youngster of the party, not merely in years, but in experience, character, knowledge, and all that goes to make a man, I had been overshadowed from the first.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Eventually, this knowledge may help lead to potential therapies.

(Gene Disruptions Associated with Autism Risk, NIH)

The finding adds to our knowledge of how solar storms affect Earth and could possibly lead to improved radio communication and navigation systems for the Arctic.

(Solar Storms Can Drain Electrical Charge Above Earth, NASA)

Such knowledge not only informs our own decisions but also helps us predict the future decisions of our partner.

(‘Mindreading’ neurons simulate decisions of social partners, University of Cambridge)

Mrs. Fairfax may indeed have suspected something, but she could have gained no precise knowledge as to facts.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

It was not born of any knowledge of his, yet it was the visible expression of the fear that was in him, and for which, in his own life, there was no accounting.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

Previously, there was only a small fraction of this knowledge, mainly because researchers could measure only a few blood proteins simultaneously in a robust manner.

(Scientists create ‘genetic atlas’ of proteins in human blood, University of Cambridge)

“I am improving my legal knowledge, Master Copperfield,” said Uriah.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Wert thou but once here, my friend, though wouldst feel and own the power of knowledge.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

The study of the human diet in Palaeolithic times is currently among the research areas generating the greatest advances in knowledge.

(Analysis of the Palaeolithic diet finds that, in the prehistoric age, for thousands of years there were no social divisions in food consumption, University of Granada)