Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Failure to recognize, know, or apprehend. Also spelled
incognisance .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Failure to cognize, apprehended, or notice.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Failure to
cognize ,apprehend , ornotice .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a lack of knowledge or recognition
Etymologies
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
in- + cognizance
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Examples
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Rick has this incognizance charm (and blond too hoho) I just want the best for him.
natinski Diary Entry natinski 2003
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I dunno why I kept this avatar, and this incognizance shows my level of insanity.
unknown title 2009
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They fault the Hmong community’s rush to judgment for using second and third-hand accounts while failing to recognize their own incognizance and mob-like mentality.
"Leonard Kaplan, victim of a pretty clearly bogus political-correctness scandal in Wisconsin." Ann Althouse 2007
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