| Main Entry: | cognition |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | understanding |
Synonyms: |
acknowledgment, apprehension, attention, awareness, cognizance, comprehension, discernment, insight, intelligence, knowledge, mind, need, note, notice, observance, observation, perception, percipience, reasoning, recognition, regard |
Antonyms: |
ignorance, unawareness |
| Main Entry: | cognizance/cognition |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | understanding |
Synonyms: |
acknowledgment, apprehension, attention, awareness, comprehension, discernment, insight, intelligence, knowledge, mind, need, note, notice, observance, observation, perception, percipience, reasoning, recognition, regard |
Antonyms: |
ignorance, misunderstanding |
| Main Entry: | conception |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | understanding; idea |
Synonyms: |
apperception, appreciation, apprehension, clue, cogitating, cognition, communing, comprehension, conceit, concentrating, concept, consideration, considering, deliberating, design, dreaming, envisaging, explanation, exposition, fancy, fancying, image, imagining, impression, inkling, intellection, interpretation, meditating, meditation, mental grasp, musing, notion, perception, philosophizing, picture, plan, realization, representation, speculating, speculation, thought, version |
| Notes: | a concept is a more definite, more unitary, more complete type of notion than is a conception, which is more of an ideational structure with a potential for realization (rather like a schema) |
Antonyms: |
being, concrete |
| Main Entry: | familiarity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | knowledgeableness |
Synonyms: |
acquaintance, awareness, cognition, comprehension, experience, feel, grasp, knowledge, sense, understanding |
Antonyms: |
ignorance, unfamiliarity |
| Main Entry: | imagination |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | power to create in one's mind |
Synonyms: |
acuteness, artistry, awareness, chimera, cognition, conception, creation, creative thought, creativity, enterprise, fabrication, fancy, fantasy, flight of fancy, idea, ideality, illusion, image, imagery, ingenuity, insight, inspiration, intelligence, invention, inventiveness, mental agility, notion, originality, perceptibility, realization, resourcefulness, sally, supposition, thought, thoughtfulness, unreality, verve, vision, visualization, wit, wittiness |
Antonyms: |
being, entity, existence, material, reality, substance, truth |
| Main Entry: | knowledge |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person's understanding; information |
Synonyms: |
ability, accomplishments, acquaintance, apprehension, attainments, awareness, cognition, comprehension, consciousness, dirt*, discernment, doctrine, dogma, dope*, education, enlightenment, erudition, expertise, facts, familiarity, goods*, grasp, inside story, insight, instruction, intelligence, judgment, know-how, learning, light*, lore, observation, philosophy, picture, power*, principles, proficiency, recognition, scholarship, schooling, science, scoop*, substance, theory, tuition, wisdom |
Antonyms: |
ignorance |
| Main Entry: | observation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | attention, scrutiny |
Synonyms: |
ascertainment, check, cognition, cognizance, conclusion, consideration, detection, estimation, examination, experience, heedfulness, information, inspection, investigation, knowledge, mark, measurement, mind, monitoring, note, notice, noticing, once-over, overlook, perception, probe, recognizing, regard, remark, research, review, search, study, supervision, surveillance, view, watching |
Antonyms: |
heedlessness, inattention, indifference, neglect, thoughtlessness |
| Main Entry: | scholarship |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | knowledge |
Synonyms: |
ability, awareness, cognition, comprehension, discernment, education, erudition, expertise, grasp, insight, instruction, intelligence, know-how, learnedness, learning, lore, philosophy, schooling, wisdom |
| Main Entry: | thought |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | formation of mental objects |
Synonyms: |
anticipation, apprehending, attention, brainwork, cerebration, cogitation, cognition, concluding, consideration, considering, contemplation, deducing, deduction, deliberation, deriving, discerning, heed, hope, ideation, inducing, inferring, introspection, intuition, judging, knowing, logic, meditation, musing, perceiving, rationalization, rationalizing, realizing, reasoning, reflection, regard, rumination, scrutiny, seeing, speculation, study, theorization, thinking, understanding |
Antonyms: |
vacancy, vacuity |
| Main Entry: | thinking |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | thought |
Synonyms: |
cerebration, cogitation, cognition, contemplation, deliberation, idea, ideation, introspection, judgment, logic, meditation, musing, opinion, rationalization, reason, reasoning, reflection, rumination, study, understanding |