background knowledge

1. 1.

   information that is essential to understanding a situation or problem

   “the embassy filled him in on the background of the incident”

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   Broaderinformation

Questions about background knowledge

What does background knowledge mean?

background knowledge means "information that is essential to understanding a situation or problem".

What is another word for background knowledge?

Close synonyms include background. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is background knowledge a common word?

background knowledge is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.