cognizance
noun
awareness, realization, or knowledge; notice; perception.
self-cognizance
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a word derived from
cognizance.
Example Sentences
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This general intelligence and self-cognizance was the direct result of the work of the grange.
From A Spoil of Office A Story of the Modern West by Garland, Hamlin
It possessed science, literature, and art; above all, that which at once produced and was produced by all these—thorough perception of what exists, thorough consciousness of our own freedom and powers: self-cognizance.
From Euphorion Being Studies of the Antique and the Mediaeval in the Renaissance - Vol. I by Lee, Vernon
