What is another word for cognoscenti?

Pronunciation: [kˌɒɡnəsˈɛnti] (IPA)

Cognoscenti is a term that refers to people with specialized knowledge or expertise in a particular field. Some synonyms for cognoscenti include connoisseur, expert, specialist, authority, pundit, and savant. These terms are often used to describe individuals who have a deep understanding of art, music, literature, cuisine, or any other specialized area of interest. Connoisseur typically refers to someone who has refined taste and judgment in a particular area, while pundit and authority suggest someone who is widely respected for their knowledge and expertise. Specialist and savant are more specialized terms that suggest an individual has a highly specialized and in-depth understanding of a particular field.

What are the hypernyms for Cognoscenti?

A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.

Usage examples for Cognoscenti

But he heard much of Isaura; of the kindness which Madame de Grantmesnil had shown to her, when left by Selby's death alone in the world; of the interest which the friendship and the warm eulogies of one so eminent as the great French writer had created for Isaura in the artistic circles; of the intense sensation her appearance, her voice, her universal genius, had made in that society, and the brilliant hopes of her subsequent career on the stage the cognoscenti had formed.
"The Parisians, Book 11."
Edward Bulwer-Lytton
The significance of a picture, according to the cognoscenti, must be implicit in its forms; its essential quality is something which appeals directly to the sensibility of any sensitive person; and any reference to life, to be of consequence, must be a reference to that fundamental experience which is the common heritage of mankind.
"Since Cézanne"
Clive Bell
At last, just as he had pictured it from old recollections of a minor race he had once seen, there was the shouting and bawling of the odds, the clearing of the course, and then the preliminary canter of the ten competitors, among which he now made out the colours of Simoom, a big ordinary-looking horse, with nothing to draw attention to it, while the three first favourites of the cognoscenti were the perfection of equine beauty, and their admirers shouted with excitement as they flashed by.
"King of the Castle"
George Manville Fenn

Famous quotes with Cognoscenti

  • [On modern art] True psychos stand alone. The only pioneers are those who give voices to the ugliest corridors of their unconscious without fear of censure from any quarter. The acts that ordinary of people commit behind closed doors are beyond the ken of any performance artist. Humans' innate weirdness is far more threating and entertaining than anything the professional shock mavens could conjure.I boggle your conception of a world split between cognoscenti and squares.I subvert the subversive and bury the underground under six feet of its own hypocritical manure. I perform tattooing, body-piercing, and ritual scarification upon you. Give vent to your sickest fantasies, but don't call it art. Cornhole Barbara Bush, but only if you to. Sketch your astrological chart with your own feces,but only if it good. If you want to do something truly radical, kill yourself. We'll have one less reader, but the world will be a better place.
    Jim Goad

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