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conoscente

conoscente is the rare form of cognoscente.

Meaning of cognoscente

Noun

cognoscente (plural cognoscenti)

  1. (in plural, often) Someone possessing superior or specialized knowledge in a particular field.
    • He is the painter who has been held to combine the most complete grace of form with sublimity of expression. Such at least I have gathered to be the opinion of cognoscenti.1872, George Eliot [pseudonym; Mary Ann Evans], chapter XX, in Middlemarch […], volume II, Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC, book II
    Antonyms:
    novice

Forms of conoscente

pluralconoscenti

Origin of conoscente

From Italian conoscente, modern form of obsolete cognoscente.

Questions about conoscente

What is conoscente the rare form of?
Conoscente is the rare form of cognoscente.

Words near conoscente in the dictionary

  1. conorm
  2. conormal
  3. conormality
  4. conorms
  5. conos
  6. conoscente
  7. conoscenti
  8. conoscopic
  9. conoscopy
  10. conoseptal
  11. conospherical

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Adapted from Wiktionary: conoscente (page history and authors); cognoscente (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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