knowledgeability

1. 1.

   wisdom as evidenced by the possession of knowledge

   “his knowledgeability impressed me”

   “his dullness was due to lack of initiation”

   Synonymsknowledgeablenessinitiation

   Broaderwisdom

Other forms of knowledgeability

plural

knowledgeabilities·

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 knowledgeability

What does knowledgeability mean?

knowledgeability means "wisdom as evidenced by the possession of knowledge".

How many syllables are in knowledgeability?

knowledgeability has 7 syllables: know-led-ge-a-bi-li-ty. The stress falls on "bi".

What is another word for knowledgeability?

Close synonyms include knowledgeableness, initiation. 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 knowledgeability a common word?

knowledgeability 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.