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Meaning of "cogency" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF COGENCY

cogency  [ˈkəʊdʒənsɪ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF COGENCY

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Cogency is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES COGENCY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of cogency in the English dictionary

The definition of cogency in the dictionary is convincing reasoning.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH COGENCY


agency
ˈeɪdʒənsɪ
astringency
əˈstrɪndʒənsɪ
consistency
kənˈsɪstənsɪ
consultancy
kənˈsʌltənsɪ
contingency
kənˈtɪndʒənsɪ
counterinsurgency
ˌkaʊntərɪnˈsɜːdʒənsɪ
currency
ˈkʌrənsɪ
detergency
dɪˈtɜːdʒənsɪ
efficiency
ɪˈfɪʃənsɪ
emergency
ɪˈmɜːdʒənsɪ
frequency
ˈfriːkwənsɪ
insurgency
ɪnˈsɜːdʒənsɪ
interagency
ˌɪntərˈeɪdʒənsɪ
nonemergency
ˌnɒnɪˈmɜːdʒənsɪ
potency
ˈpəʊtənsɪ
pregnancy
ˈprɛɡnənsɪ
pungency
ˈpʌndʒənsɪ
regency
ˈriːdʒənsɪ
stringency
ˈstrɪndʒənsɪ
urgency
ˈɜːdʒənsɪ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE COGENCY

cog
cog railway
cogence
cogener
cogeneration
cogenerator
cogent
cogently
cogged
cogger
coggie
cogging
coggle
coggly
cogitable
cogitate
cogitation
cogitative
cogitatively
cogito, ergo sum

WORDS THAT END LIKE COGENCY

ad agency
advertising agency
aid agency
credit agency
employment agency
Environment Agency
Environmental Protection Agency
estate agency
European Space Agency
Food Standards Agency
intelligence agency
law enforcement agency
literary agency
news agency
recruitment agency
relief agency
state of emergency
the point of tangency
the Regency
transparency
travel agency

Synonyms and antonyms of cogency in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «COGENCY»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «cogency» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of cogency

Translation of «cogency» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF COGENCY

Find out the translation of cogency to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of cogency from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «cogency» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

中肯
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

contundencia
570 millions of speakers

English

cogency
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

cogency
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

قوة الحجة
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

убедительность
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

cogency
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

অকাট্যতা
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

bien-fondé
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Cogency
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Überzeugungskraft
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

説得力
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

설득력
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Cogency
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

khẩn cấp
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

தெளிவாகக் கூறப்படுதல்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

आकस्मिकता
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

inandırıcılık
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

forza di persuasione
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

cogency
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

переконливість
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

contingență mărită
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

πειστικότητα
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

bewyskrag
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

slagkraft
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

cogency
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of cogency

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «COGENCY»

The term «cogency» is regularly used and occupies the 72.046 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «COGENCY» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «cogency» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «cogency» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about cogency

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «COGENCY»

Discover the use of cogency in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to cogency and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Argumentation and Debate
If the audience perceives the pre— mises as well grounded and the reasoning as rhetorically sound, it will be likely to accept the conclusion. A. The Degree of Cogency The degree of cogency is the extent to which an argument is both sound ...
Austin Freeley, David Steinberg, 2013
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Good Reasons for Better Arguments: An Introduction to the ...
4.10 Cogency: The Overall Judgement It is important to remember that the overall judgement of cogency is a function of the criteria we have already discussed: acceptability, relevance, and sufficiency. An argument cannot be cogent if it fails to ...
Jerome E. Bickenbach, Jacqueline M. Davies, 1996
3
The Argumentative Turn in Policy Analysis and Planning
Threats to the usability of knowledge maybe divided into three classes: cogency, relevance, and adequacy (Table 2). Threats to the cogency of knowledge claims are of two main types: misjudged cogency and misplaced cogency. Misjudged ...
Frank Fischer, John Forester, 1993
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Decision Theory as Philosophy
Indeed, if it is a matter of indifference whether your set of beliefs satisfies Deductive Cogency, it is hard to see how any of our attempts at constructive argument can possibly swing any more weight. We typically argue for a claim by getting our ...
Mark Kaplan, 1998
5
Music in the Moment
The cardinal idea of organic form in any musical sentence or paragraph is . . . cogency of sequence at each point: a long series of periods may exhibit it throughout, and the shortest fragment may lack it. (204; my emphases) Cogency of ...
Jerrold Levinson, 2007
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The Legal Construction of Personal Work Relations
We have argued that this complexity consists especially in the way that they combine complex normative characterizations of personal work relations with no less complex cogency rules. It will now further be suggested that both the normative ...
Mark Robert Freedland, Nicola Kountouris, 2011
7
Computational Forensics: 4th International Workshop, IWCF ...
The striking point of this model is its mathematical model, which is based on cogency maximization. In inductive logic, an argument is considered cogent, if it is a “good, or sound argument” for some fact. Formally, cogency is computed in the ...
Hiroshi Sako, Katrin Franke, Shuji Saitoh, 2011
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Computational Models of Argument: Proceedings of COMMA 2012
Contradiction. 2 Proposition 9 IfP has a winning strategy for Afollowing protocol 4 then A ∈ Efor some set E ⊆ A satisfying weak cogency (i.e. condition (4)). Proof. Assume P has a winning strategy for A in a game played according to protocol ...
Bart Verheij, Stefan Szeider, Stefan Woltran, 2012
9
The Oxford Handbook of Wittgenstein
We incline to the belief that logical proof has a peculiar, absolute cogency, deriving from the unconditional certainty in logic of the fundamental laws and the laws of inference. Whereas propositions proved in this way can after all not be more ...
Oskari Kuusela, Marie McGinn, 2011
10
Methods and Tactics in Cognitive Science
If, given some proposed interpretation, the rules always permit only right answers (true equations), then that interpretation is vindicated overall (at least for arithmetic systems). Giving the right (true) answers may be called the cogency condition ...
W. Kintsch, J. R. Miller, P. G. Polson, 2014

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «COGENCY»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term cogency is used in the context of the following news items.
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Regulating the regulators
He expressed his intent to introduce a regulatory reform law that would bring about cogency of approach across various sectors. The timing of ... «Hindu Business Line, Jul 15»
2
New Regulatory Reform Bill seeks to bring parity across infra sectors
“Our Government, therefore, also proposes to introduce a regulatory reform law that will bring about a cogency of approach across various ... «Hindu Business Line, Jul 15»
3
Book review: Mama - passionate salute to motherhood
Mama is about intimacy - and the lack of it - and it probes our vulnerability around intimacy with such cogency that it can trigger a journey into ... «South China Morning Post, Jul 15»
4
Q & A's danger of irritating the conservative in anybody
... an amiable, anti-God man (who thought the Mallah business was wildly exaggerated), was banging on about the cogency of his atheism and ... «The Australian, Jul 15»
5
Church of the Epiphany's Tuesday concert series closes with …
The cogency and brilliance of the Venetian master's work cast a long shadow over his contemporaries and followers, as the offerings of Antonio ... «Washington Post, Jul 15»
6
LePage was elected
macionmhuinn. Admirable brevity and cogency. Such eloquence should not go unacknowledged: Kudos to you, my good man! Maggie Ricker. «Kennebec Journal & Morning Sentinel, Jul 15»
7
The Weakness of Laudato Si
But my concern is with the cogency of the encyclical as a whole. A great deal of what is commended as an alternative to the global system ... «First Things, Jun 15»
8
Hugo Ticcitati on embracing improvisation
There are also neat little themes and adventures weaving all the way through that give cogency, character and plenty of variety to the ... «Scotsman, Jun 15»
9
The courage to be on the wrong side of history: Lessons from Burke …
... the meaning of reason itself, has declared that this bygone wisdom now fails even to pass the minimum legal threshold of rational cogency. «World Magazine, Jun 15»
10
After Net Neut, a CEO Gets Potty-mouth
And that's the high point in cogency and intellectual honesty. When he isn't referring to competitors Verizon VZ -0.34 % and AT&T T -0.34 % as ... «Wall Street Journal, Jun 15»

REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Cogency [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/cogency>. Apr 2024 ».
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