Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

intercognition

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: in-ter-cog-ni-tion
IPA

17

Scrabble Score

14

Letters

5

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Mutual understanding.

Uncountable

Example Sentences

"[…] 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 present: […]"
"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 […]"

Etymology

From inter- + cognition.

Word Breakdown

Prefix: inter

Usage

Uncountable

Questions

What does intercognition mean?: Mutual understanding.
Where does intercognition come from?: From inter- + cognition.

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