knowledges

Noun

knowledge (usually uncountable, plural knowledges)

1. (usually) The fact of knowing about something; general understanding or familiarity with a subject, place, situation etc.
   • His knowledge of Iceland was limited to what he'd seen on the Travel Channel.
2. (usually) Awareness of a particular fact or situation; a state of having been informed or made aware of something.
   • He had always intended to visit him, though to the last always assuring his wife that he should not go; and till the evening after the visit was paid she had no knowledge of it.1813 January 27, [Jane Austen], Pride and Prejudice: […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC
3. (usually) Intellectual understanding; the state of appreciating truth or information.
   • Knowledge consists in recognizing the difference between good and bad decisions.
4. (usually) Familiarity or understanding of a particular skill, branch of learning etc.
   • Does your friend have any knowledge of hieroglyphs, perchance?
5. (usually, philosophical) Justified true belief
6. (archaic, usually) Sexual intimacy or intercourse (now usually in phrase carnal knowledge).
   • Every time that he had knowledge of her he would leave, either in the bed, or in her cushion-cloth, or by her looking-glass, or in some place where she must needs find it, a piece of money[…].1573, George Gascoigne, An Anthology of Elizabethan Prose Fiction, The Adventures of Master F.J.

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