0 a group of people who have a great knowledge and understanding of a particular subject, especially one of the arts:
Not being one of the cognoscenti, I failed to understand the ballet's subtler points.
How can this be achieved in practice, given that any theatre will welcome non-specialists and cognoscenti alike?
To those cognoscenti willing to ignore the boundaries of genre, it could have appeared to be in the mainstream of modern literary taste.
It is for the cognoscenti who already know much of the story, not for the less well-informed.
This will limit the readership to cognoscenti to some extent, but not drastically so.
This approach is helpful to the cognoscenti, but tends to make their work appear unnecessarily obscure to the uninitiated.
To the cognoscenti of cyberspace, there is a strict pecking order, all plainly visible in the alphabet soup of letters and punctuation.
Although this work has gone almost unnoticed except for aficionados and cognoscenti, it has probably been the most imaginative television over the last ten or fifteen years.
Hyman argues the case, rapidly becoming the orthodoxy of the sophisticated cognoscenti, that seeing religious beliefs as factual propositions with truthvalues is a weird aberration of modernity.
