Knowing vs Adept - What's the difference?
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Possessing knowledge or understanding; intelligent.
* South
Shrewd or showing clever awareness.
Suggestive of private knowledge.
Deliberate
The act or condition of having knowledge.
* 2009 , Gilbert Ryle, The Concept of Mind: 60th Anniversary Edition (page 194)
Well skilled; completely versed; thoroughly proficient
* 1837-1839 ,
One fully skilled or well versed in anything; a proficient; as, adepts in philosophy.
* 1841 , , Barnaby Rudge :
* 1894-95 , , Jude the Obscure :
As adjectives the difference between knowing and adept
is that knowing is possessing knowledge or understanding; intelligent while adept is well skilled; completely versed; thoroughly proficient.As nouns the difference between knowing and adept
is that knowing is the act or condition of having knowledge while adept is one fully skilled or well versed in anything; a proficient; as, adepts in philosophy.As a verb knowing
is present participle of lang=en.knowing
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- The knowing and intelligent part of the world.
- a knowing rascal
Verb
(head)Derived terms
* knowinglyNoun
(en noun)- Sensations then, are not perceivings, observings or findings; they are not detectings, scannings or inspectings; they are not apprehendings, cognisings, intuitings or knowings .
adept
English
Adjective
(en-adj)- Adept as she was, in all the arts of cunning and dissimulation, the girl Nancy could not wholly conceal the effect which the knowledge of the step she had taken, wrought upon her mind.
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* ineptNoun
(en noun)- When he had achieved this task, he applied himself to the acquisition of stable language, in which he soon became such an adept , that he would perch outside my window and drive imaginary horses with great skill, all day.
- Others, alas, had an instinct towards artificiality in their very blood, and became adepts in counterfeiting at the first glimpse of it.
