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scientia — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • information noun Facts or knowledge provided or learned about something.
  • knowledge noun Information, understanding, or awareness gained through experience, study, or being told.
  • science noun The systematic study of the natural world through observation and experiment.
  • wisdom noun The ability to use knowledge and experience to make good decisions and judgements.

Senses

scientia is used for these senses in English:

  • information Things that are or can be known about a given topic; communicable knowledge of something. [from 14th c.]
  • knowledge The total of what is known; all information and products of learning. [from 16th c.]
  • science (countable) A particular discipline or branch of knowledge that is natural, measurable or consisting of systematic principles rather than intuition or technical skill. [from 14th c.]

information — full definition

  1. noun Facts or knowledge provided or learned about something.
  2. noun A formal accusation of a crime brought before a court without a grand jury.

knowledge — full definition

  1. noun Information, understanding, or awareness gained through experience, study, or being told.
  2. noun Awareness that something is the case.

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