knowledge

Plural: knowledges

Noun

• the psychological result of perception and learning and reasoning
• The fact of knowing about something; general understanding or familiarity with a subject, place, situation etc.
• Awareness of a particular fact or situation; a state of having been informed or made aware of something.
• Intellectual understanding; the state of appreciating truth or information.
• Familiarity or understanding of a particular skill, branch of learning etc.
• Justified true belief
• Sexual intimacy or intercourse (now usually in phrase carnal knowledge).
• Information or intelligence about something; notice.
• The total of what is known; all information and products of learning.
• Something that can be known; a branch of learning; a piece of information; a science.
• Acknowledgement.
• Notice, awareness.
• The deep familiarity with certain routes and places of interest required by taxicab drivers working in London, England.

Verb

• To confess as true; to acknowledge.

Examples

• A secretary should have a good knowledge of shorthand.
• Does your friend have any knowledge of hieroglyphs, perchance?
• He has a lot of knowledge on the Indus Valley Civilization.
• His knowledge of Iceland was limited to what he'd seen on the Travel Channel.
• His library contained the accumulated knowledge of the Greeks and Romans.
• Knowledge consists in recognizing the difference between good and bad decisions.

Synonyms

cognition, noesis, awareness, cognizance, ken, knowingness, knowledge, learning

Antonyms

ignorance

Related Words

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