Meaning & use
Cognisance
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Awareness, knowledge, or understanding of something.
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The board took cognisance of the employees' concerns before finalizing the policy.
Local authorities finally took cognisance of the flooding risk after years of complaints.
A note on using this word
This is the British/Commonwealth spelling; the American English variant is "cognizance."
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Words with an opposite meaning
ignoranceunawareness
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