cognizance
cognizance is a 10-letter English word with 10 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Apprehension by the understanding; perception; observation. Face value is 24 in Scrabble and 29 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
Definitions
- noun. Apprehension by the understanding; perception; observation.
- noun. Recollection; recognition.
- noun. Jurisdiction, or the power given by law to hear and decide controversies.
- noun. The hearing a matter judicially.
- noun. An acknowledgment of a fine of lands and tenements or confession of a thing done.
- noun. A form of defense in the action of replevin, by which the defendant insists that the goods were lawfully taken, as a distress, by defendant, acting as servant for another.
- noun. The distinguishing mark worn by an armed knight, usually upon the helmet, and by his retainers and followers: Hence, in general, a badge worn by a retainer or dependent, to indicate the person or party to which he belonged; a token by which a thing may be known.
- noun. having knowledge of
"he had no awareness of his mistakes"
"his sudden consciousness of the problem he faced"
- noun. range or scope of what is perceived
- noun. range of what one can know or understand
"beyond my ken"
Synonyms
awareness, cognisance, consciousness, knowingness, ken
Words from these letters
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