scienter

1. 1.

   (law) deliberately or knowingly

   law

Questions about scienter

What does scienter mean?

scienter means "(law) deliberately or knowingly".

How many syllables are in scienter?

scienter has 2 syllables and divides as scien-ter under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is scienter a common word?

scienter 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.