🇰🇷Korean Source WordCode: KO

인식

Pronunciation / Transliteration: insik

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Cognizance/ˈkɒɡ.nɪ.zəns/
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🇰🇷 Example Sentence in Korean:

"우리는 이 문제에 대해 인식을 같이해야 한다."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    Knowledge, awareness, or notice, especially when taken formally or officially into account.

    "The committee agreed to take cognizance of the new environmental reports."
  2. 2

    The range of what one can know or understand; jurisdiction or authority to deal with a matter.

    "The matter falls outside the cognizance of this particular tribunal."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the Old French 'cognissance' (meaning knowledge, recognition), stemming from the Latin 'cognoscere', meaning 'to get to know' or 'to recognize'. The term entered legal and formal English usage in the late Middle Ages, initially denoting judicial notice or jurisdiction, before expanding into general usage to mean awareness or notice.

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