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intercognition

intercognition noun: mutual understanding.

Noun

intercognition (uncountable)

  1. Mutual understanding.
    • […] and four principal or chief Ecclesiastics, with the rulers of the Churches under their authority, may be appealed to as the eventual commencers by that mutual intercognition, which may be expected from the progress of society, of better feelings among Christians than those which prevail at...1849, George Townsend, Scriptural communion with God, page 495
    • The question of intercognition between the arts often remains a vague one, applied to relations between different media, because poems by painters or paintings by poets (like Goethe's drawings) are seldom more than curiosities […]1958, The Painter & Sculptor, volumes 1-3, page 24

Origin of intercognition

From inter- + cognition.

Questions about intercognition

What does intercognition mean?
Intercognition means mutual understanding.
What part of speech is intercognition?
Intercognition is a noun.

Words near intercognition in the dictionary

  1. intercoastally
  2. intercoccygeal
  3. intercoder
  4. intercodon
  5. intercodons
  6. intercognition
  7. intercohesin
  8. intercohort
  9. intercohortal
  10. intercoil
  11. intercoiled

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