Cognoscenti (noun)
kon-ee-o-sen-tee
People who are especially well informed about a particular subject.
Late 18th century: Italian, literally ‘people who know’, from Latin cognoscent- ‘getting to know’, from the verb cognoscere.
Example sentences
“We consider him to be the literary cognoscenti.”
Medley (noun) med-lee a mixture, especially of heterogeneous elements; hodgepodge; jumble. First recorded in 1300–50; Middle English noun and adjective medle(e), medlei(e), maedlai(e) “battle, war, quarrel; mixture, balanced mixture,” from…
