COGNISANT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does cognisant mean? 

• COGNISANT (adjective)
  The adjective COGNISANT has 1 sense:

1. (sometimes followed by 'of') having or showing knowledge or understanding or realization or perception

  Familiarity information: COGNISANT used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• COGNISANT (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(sometimes followed by 'of') having or showing knowledge or understanding or realization or perception

Synonyms:

aware; cognisant; cognizant

Context example:

aware that he had exceeded the speed limit

Similar:

alert; alive; awake (mentally perceptive and responsive)

conscious ((followed by 'of') showing realization or recognition of something)

sensible (aware intuitively or intellectually of something sensed)

Also:

awake (not in a state of sleep; completely conscious)

witting (aware or knowing)

conscious (knowing and perceiving; having awareness of surroundings and sensations and thoughts)

sensible; sensitive (able to feel or perceive)

Attribute:

awareness; cognisance; cognizance; consciousness; knowingness (having knowledge of)

Derivation:

cognisance (having knowledge of)

cognise (be cognizant or aware of a fact or a specific piece of information; possess knowledge or information about)

 Context examples 

I suppose I do come on; though in what fashion I know not; being scarcely cognisant of my movements, and solicitous only to appear calm; and, above all, to control the working muscles of my face—which I feel rebel insolently against my will, and struggle to express what I had resolved to conceal.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)