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Knowingness

noun

Having knowledge of. Synonyms: awareness, cognisance, cognizance, consciousness. "His sudden consciousness of the problem he faced" , "Their intelligence and general knowingness was impressive"

Shrewdness demonstrated by knowledge.

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"Knowingness" Quotes from Famous Books

... which Matthew Arnold asserts to be one mark of all great poetry. Holmes's poetry is mostly on the colloquial level, excellent society-verse, but even in its serious moments too smart and too pretty to be taken very gravely; with a certain glitter, knowingness and flippancy about it and an absence of that self-forgetfulness and intense absorption in its theme which characterize the work of the higher imagination. This is rather the product of fancy and wit. Wit, indeed, in the old sense of quickness in the perception of analogies ...

— Brief History of English and American Literature • Henry A. Beers

... was begun and prosecuted with all the hatred of a great lady treated with contempt, and with all the knowingness of an unscrupulous lawyer eager to serve, in point of fact, his patroness, and to demonstrate, in point of law, the thesis he had advanced. Francis I., volatile, reckless, and ever helpless as he was against the passions of his mother, who whilst she adored, beguiled him, readily lent himself ...

— A Popular History of France From The Earliest Times - Volume IV. of VI. • Francois Pierre Guillaume Guizot

Words linked to "Knowingness" : perspicaciousness, perspicacity, astuteness, aware, cognizant, shrewdness, incognizance, self-awareness, incognizant, cognisant, feel, unaware, sense, knowing