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Cognizant vs Cogency - What's the difference?

cognizant | cogency |

As an adjective cognizant

is aware; fully informed; having understanding.

As a noun cogency is

the state of being cogent; the characteristic or quality of being reasonable and persuasive.

cognizant

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Aware; fully informed; having understanding
    • The defendant is cognizant that this is a serious charge.

    Antonyms

    * unwitting

    See also

    * cognisant * cognize

    cogency

    English

    Noun

    (cogencies)
  • The state of being cogent; the characteristic or quality of being reasonable and persuasive.
  • * 1781 , , "Addison," in Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, to the Works of the English Poets , J. Nichols (London), vol. 5, page 156:
    • All the enchantment of fancy, and all the cogency of argument, are employed to recommend to the reader his real interest.
  • * 1928 , , "Thomas Aquinas' Doctrine of Knowledge and Its Historical Setting," Speculum , vol. 3, no. 4 (Oct), page 444:
    • A philosophic study of the development of philosophies should be content to seek out the bases and cogencies of philosophies rather than engage upon a nostalgic search for sympathetic doctrines.

    References

    * * * * * Oxford English Dictionary , second edition (1989) * Random House Webster's Unabridged Electronic Dictionary (1987-1996)