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/ˈkɒɡnɪzəns/ · noun
An emblem, badge or device, used as a distinguishing mark by the body of retainers of a royal or noble house..
Poor Lady Rotheles was really so imprudent on the late occasion of her niece's elopement as to go into a passion, and to utter such a tirade against her, her lord was roused from his habitual, but not natural listlessness, and became, in consequence, master of sentiments and secrets hitherto most commendably concealed from his cognizance.
As soon as he had left, he rushed to the screen and drew it back. No; there was no further change in the picture. It had received the news of Sibyl Vane's death before he had known of it himself. It was conscious of the events of life as they occurred. The vicious cruelty that marred the fine lines of the mouth had, no doubt, appeared at the very moment that the girl had drunk the poison, whatever it was. Or was it indifferent to results? Did it merely take cognizance of what passed within the soul?
Use cognizance when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Cognizance means An emblem, badge or device, used as a distinguishing mark by the body of retainers of a royal or noble house..
Common synonyms include consciousness, awareness, ken, knowingness.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Poor Lady Rotheles was really so imprudent on the late occasion of her niece's elopement as to go into a passion, and to utter such a tirade against her, her lord was roused from his habitual, but not natural listlessness, and became, in consequence, master of sentiments and secrets hitherto most commendably concealed from his cognizance.
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