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1. knowledgenoun

   Synonyms:
   knowingness, awareness, kenEnglish, learning, cognizance

   Antonyms:
   ignorance

2. knowledgenoun

   Notice, awareness.

   Synonyms:
   learning, awareness, kenEnglish, knowingness, cognizance

   Antonyms:
   ignorance

3. knowledgenoun

   Acknowledgement.

   Synonyms:
   cognizance, awareness, learning, knowingness, kenEnglish

   Antonyms:
   ignorance

4. knowledgenoun

   The fact of knowing about something; general understanding or familiarity with a subject, place, situation etc.

   His knowledge of Iceland was limited to what he’d seen on the Travel Channel.

   Synonyms:
   kenEnglish, cognizance, learning, knowingness, awareness

   Antonyms:
   ignorance

5. knowledgenoun

   Awareness of a particular fact or situation; a state of having been informed or made aware of something.

   Synonyms:
   knowingness, kenEnglish, learning, cognizance, awareness

   Antonyms:
   ignorance

6. knowledgenoun

   Intellectual understanding; the state of appreciating truth or information.

   Knowledge consists in recognizing the difference between good and bad decisions.

   Synonyms:
   knowingness, kenEnglish, cognizance, learning, awareness

   Antonyms:
   ignorance

7. knowledgenoun

   Familiarity or understanding of a particular skill, branch of learning etc.

   Does your friend have any knowledge of hieroglyphics, perchance?

   Synonyms:
   cognizance, learning, awareness, knowingness, kenEnglish

   Antonyms:
   ignorance

8. knowledgenoun

   Sexual intimacy or intercourse (now usually in phrase carnal knowledge).

   Synonyms:
   cognizance, knowingness, awareness, learning, kenEnglish

   Antonyms:
   ignorance

9. knowledgenoun

   Information or intelligence about something; notice.

   Synonyms:
   cognizance, knowingness, awareness, kenEnglish, learning

   Antonyms:
   ignorance

10. knowledgenoun

    The total of what is known; all information and products of learning.

    His library contained the accumulated knowledge of the Greeks and Romans.

    Synonyms:
    cognizance, awareness, knowingness, learning, kenEnglish

    Antonyms:
    ignorance

11. knowledgenoun

    Something that can be known; a branch of learning; a piece of information; a science.

    Synonyms:
    knowingness, cognizance, kenEnglish, learning, awareness

    Antonyms:
    ignorance

English Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:2.0 / 1 vote

1. knowledge

   Knowledge is all that the mind knows, from whatever source derived or obtained, or by whatever process; the aggregate of facts, truths, or principles acquired or retained by the mind, including alike the intuitions native to the mind and all that has been learned respecting phenomena, causes, laws, principles, literature, etc. There is a tendency to regard knowledge as accurate and systematic, and to a certain degree complete. Information is knowledge of fact, real or supposed, derived from persons, books, or observation, and is regarded as casual and haphazard. We say of a studious man that he has a great store of knowledge, or of an intelligent man of the world, that he has a fund of varied information. Lore is used only in poetic or elevated style, for accumulated knowledge, as of a people or age, or in a more limited sense for learning or erudition. We speak of perception of external objects, apprehension of intellectual truth. Simple perception gives a limited knowledge of external objects, merely as such; the cognition of the same objects is a knowledge of them in some relation; cognizance is the formal or official recognition of something as an object of knowledge; we take cognizance of it. Intuition is primary knowledge antecedent to all teaching or reasoning, experience is knowledge that has entered directly into one’s own life; as, a child’s experience that fire will burn. Learning is much higher than information, being preeminently wide and systematic knowledge, the result of long, assiduous study; erudition is recondite learning secured only by extraordinary industry, opportunity, and ability. Compare ACQUAINTANCE; EDUCATION; SCIENCE; WISDOM.

   Synonyms:
   acquaintance, apprehension, cognition, cognizance, comprehension, erudition, experience, information, intelligence, intuition, learning, light, lore, perception, recognition, scholarship, science, wisdom

   Antonyms:
   ignorance, illiteracy, inexperience, misapprehension, misconception, misunderstanding, rudeness, unfamiliarity

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. knowledge

   Synonyms:
   apprehension, comprehension, recognition, understanding, conversance, experience, acquaintance, familiarity, cognizance, notice, information, instruction, learning, enlightenment, scholarship, attainments, acquirements

   Antonyms:
   misapprehension, inobservance, incomprehension, misunderstanding, misconception, inconversance, inexperience, ignorance, unfamiliarity, incognizance, misinformation, deception, misinstruction, uneducatedness, untutoredness, rudeness, illiterateness

Princeton’s WordNetRate these synonyms:2.3 / 3 votes

1. cognition, knowledge, noesisnoun

   the psychological result of perception and learning and reasoning

   Synonyms:
   cognition, noesis

Editors ContributionRate these synonyms:4.0 / 1 vote

1. cross-curricular

   to apply knowledge to a subject

   my teacher gave me a cross-curricular on the human body

   Submitted by rinat on February 7, 2016  

Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. knowledgenoun

   Synonyms:
   apprehension, comprehension, perception, understanding, discernment, judgment

2. knowledgenoun

   Synonyms:
   learning, erudition, scholarship, enlightenment, lore, acquirements, attainments

3. knowledgenoun

   Synonyms:
   cognizance, cognition, notice, information

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1. knowledgenoun

   Synonyms:
   learning, lore, erudition, culture, enlightenment, attainments, information, cognizance, apprehension, cognition, understanding, ken, omniscience (universal knowledge), prescience (foreknowledge), polymathy

   Antonyms:
   sciolism, ignorance, inerudition, dilettanteism pedantry, unfamiliarity

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1. List of paraphrases for «knowledge»:

   expertise, knowledge-based, know-how, intellectual, awareness, understanding, know, skills, familiarity, aware, acquaintance, acquaintances, connaissances, cognizance, knowing, connaissance, information, insight, literacy, insights, acquainted, knowledgeable, known, consciousness, knowledge-, proficiency, learning

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1. A. W. Pink:

   Peter exercised a zeal which was unregulated by knowledge

2. Sir Francis Bacon, Meditationes Sacræ. De Hæresibus. (1597):

   Knowledge is power. (Ipsa Scientia Potestas Est)

3. Andrew Tilker:

   To the scientific world this was a lost species, but local people had known about it. It was only by utilizing the local ecological knowledge that we were successful. That can be replicated for other species in other parts of the world.

4. Zaman Ali:

   No knowledge can summarize humans in one premise.”

5. Russian Ambassador Alexander Yakovenko:

   The world is much bigger than the United Kingdom, your knowledge and experience gained at the Embassy will always be valued in the Russian diplomatic service.

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