What is another word for cognisance?

Pronunciation: [kˈɒɡnɪsəns] (IPA)

Cognisance refers to having knowledge or awareness about something. There are several synonyms for this word that can be used depending on the context, including understanding, comprehension, perception, recognition, realization, appreciation, insight, and grasp. All these words refer to the ability to comprehend something and to have some level of awareness about it. They can be used interchangeably, but each of them carries a slightly different meaning and connotation. For example, perception refers to the ability to sense something with our senses, while comprehension refers to the ability to understand something intellectually. Regardless of which word is used, they all convey the essence of being aware of something.

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Usage examples for Cognisance

Quarter sessions and assizes come only at long intervals, are held only in particular time-honoured places, and take cognisance only of very serious offences which happily are not numerous.
"Hodge and His Masters"
Richard Jefferies
This vigour of understanding is displayed in many processes of deductive reasoning, in the power of seizing some general principle underlying diverse phenomena, in the use of analogies by which he illustrates the argument and advances from known to unknown causes and from things within the cognisance of our senses to those beyond their range, and in the clearness and variety of his observation.
"The Roman Poets of the Republic"
W. Y. Sellar
They are not justified in arbitrarily fabricating a hypothesis entirely inconsistent with experience of the orderly development of nature, which even postulates a domain of nature that human senses cannot take any cognisance of, and in then calling upon those who reject their assumption to disprove it.
"Theological Essays"
Charles Bradlaugh

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