knowingness

1. 1.

   having knowledge of

   “he had no awareness of his mistakes”

   “his sudden consciousness of the problem he faced”

   “their intelligence and general knowingness was impressive”

   Synonymsawarenessconsciousnesscognizancecognisance

   Broaderknowing

   Narrowerself-awarenessfeelsense
2. 2.

   shrewdness demonstrated by knowledge

   Broadershrewdness

Other forms of knowingness

plural

knowingnesses·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about knowingness

What does knowingness mean?

knowingness means "having knowledge of". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in knowingness?

knowingness has 3 syllables: kno-wing-ness. The stress falls on "kno".

What is another word for knowingness?

Close synonyms include awareness, consciousness, cognizance, cognisance. 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 knowingness a common word?

knowingness 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.