Hearsay
Hearsay noun - Information or opinion that is widely disseminated without any authority or confirmation of accuracy.
Knowledge
Knowledge noun - A body of facts learned by study or experience.
Hearsay and knowledge are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Hearsay" instead a noun "Knowledge".
Nearby Word: knowledgeable
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Both words in one sentence
- But to speakers of these 'weird' languages, English will just seem as odd and peculiar - what, you can't just add a suffix to a verb to tell that you have personal knowledge of something, and didn't just learn about it via hearsay?
Source: Useful Notes / Linguistics - In fact, the vast majority of "accepted knowledge" about the Medieval period has turned out to be patently untrue, as it was heavily based on the accounts of Protestant and Enlightenment writers, who would fabricate information and present hearsay as fact to advance their point of view.
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