cognoscenti
noun/ˌkɒnjəˈʃenti/
/ˌkɑːnjəˈʃenti/
[plural] the cognoscenti
(from Italian, formal)- people with a lot of knowledge about a particular subjectWord Originlate 18th cent.: Italian, literally ‘people who know’, from Latin cognoscent- ‘getting to know’, from the verb cognoscere.
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