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.
At the drop of a penny, the cognoscenti will say that a work has to have some aesthetic quality in order to be artistic.
This has been an excellent debate even though, by this time in the evening, the attendance is restricted to the cognoscenti.
It might well be that even the cognoscenti are not fully aware of the implications of this legislation.
That number was not chosen at random, as cognoscenti will understand.
It is uncertain that they take a sophisticated view as part of the car cognoscenti.
The economic cognoscenti believe that there is very little that can be done about that problem.
Those of us who are the cognoscenti and the aficionados of these remarkable debates tend to become a somewhat exclusive band of brethren.
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.
