What's the difference between cognoscenti and literati?
Cognoscenti
Definition:
(pl. ) of Cognoscente
Example Sentences:
(1) The prism design for the group's blockbuster Dark Side of the Moon (1973) genuinely merits that much over-used term "iconic", and the image of a blazing businessman on a studio back lot on Wish You Were Here (1975) provoked endless late-night discussion among Floyd cognoscenti.
(2) It's not a rowdy place – think the cocktail cognoscenti trading tales over Rolling Stones classics – so come to expand your palate (but squeeze your wallet!).
(3) Photograph: Richard Saker Among the design cognoscenti of the period, Braun products were the creme de la creme, the must-have objects.
(4) Speaking in the House of Commons, Sir Peter Tapsell said it was “absolutely well known by the cognoscenti that it was completed many months ago”.
(5) These qualities doubtlessly appeal to certain cognoscenti, but it is not clear why they would raise Thy-1 to the status of a favourite molecule.
(6) All were alien to a coastal cognoscenti which decided long ago that this election was a foregone conclusion.
(7) In other eras, a dry and technical debate might have preoccupied a few constitutional cognoscenti.
(8) The political cognoscenti remained convinced, though, that the cap's only appeal was to those who hadn't thought the energy market through.
(9) One of the biggest comics in the country, he’s gone from being a pasty-faced prodigy who apparently arrived fully formed at the age of 22 to a star (admittedly still pasty-faced) who can both sell out arenas and earn kudos from comedy cognoscenti.
(10) From officials to analysts, cognoscenti in Bulgaria say Britain's fears of a tidal wave of migrants appearing when restrictions are lifted are unfounded.
(11) For cognoscenti of the debt drama that has rocked the eurozone since exploding beneath the Acropolis in late 2009, the visit is crucial for the German leader as she gears up for general elections in September 2013.
(12) February 26, 2013 And Kit Juckes of Société Générale was pithy as ever: The cognoscenti will be focusing on the fact that the Italian election was a clear anti-austerity protest by the people of the eurozone’s third-largest economy.
(13) Even then, her influence was limited to cognoscenti – intellectual and metropolitan.
(14) 10 Xenophobia (One Nite Alone…Live!, 2002) Prince’s straight jazz records pleased few, being too smooth and poppy for the jazz cognoscenti and too experimental for the masses.
(15) To the Westminster cognoscenti, the pictures confirmed that Duncan Smith is not a natural soulmate of Osborne, who neglected to mention the national living wage in the traditional pre-budget cabinet meeting to ensure maximum impact for his headline announcement.
(16) But then came an astonishingly rapid shift, from ephemeral pieces well thought of by the cognoscenti to the popular hit of the Blur Building, to projects in the tens and hundreds of millions of dollars, such as the High Line and the Lincoln Centre.
(17) He and his onetime agent, Steve Lazarides, borrowed from the word-of-mouth warehouse party scene of the 1980s to generate a new in-crowd, a hip cognoscenti who got first dibs on buying made-to-sell Banksy originals.
(18) With that, she wore ankle-length trousers by Joseph, a wardrobe staple among fashion cognoscenti, with shoes by the very British and very Middleton-endorsed LK Bennett.
(19) Cognoscenti of new housing will also know of fine, small-scale projects by the developers Crispin Kelly of Baylight and Roger Zogolovitch of Solidspace .
Literati
Definition:
(n. pl.) Learned or literary men. See Literatus.
(pl. ) of Literatus
Example Sentences:
(1) The so-called literati aren't insular – this from a woman who ran the security service – but we aren't going to apologise for what we believe in either.
(2) The view of most people I've talked to is that he's improved the paper and there is a grudging respect for what he's done among what I would call the literati of US journalism."
(3) Opened by cousins Jack Kriendler and Charlie Berns in a row of brownstones on 1 January 1930, 21 has continued to draw the literati and glitterati to 52nd Street – nicknamed “Swing Street” – home to more than 30 speakeasies.
(4) Chris "Zipalong" Mullin invoked that illusory enemy, the "London literati" (I live in Belfast, so can disagree with him without fear of recrimination).
(5) This writer, not long from a very provincial colony, lost any residual awe for the metropolitan literati at a stroke.
(6) In this late life-time, he corresponded with scientists, literati, musicians, his son, and his grand-duke CARL AUGUST.
(7) Christensen said in a statement: “Styling themselves as ‘prominent Australians’, these elitist wankers include investment bankers, CEOs of major corporations such as Telstra, pretentious literati, professional activists and has-been celebrities.
(8) Today, this would be a telltale sign that a smidgen of marriage counselling might be in order, but in those dark, pre-therapy days such aid was not available to the literati.
(9) Here, a politician would get an aide to compile a list of books they were supposed to have read on holiday (cools ones to impress the literati, best-sellers to impress the rest) and then release it to the papers.
(10) He was partial to one of Ireland’s most iconic properties when in town, as were many of the visiting literati throughout the years, including William Makepeace Thackeray.
(11) Rimington, ably supported by Mullin, has effortlessly enraged the "London literati", inspiring headlines such as "Booker in crisis".
(12) They lived in the world of ideas, where Clifford's insubstantial writing had brought him a certain celebrity among the well-to-do London literati.
(13) His real market is in India where, still scorned by the literati, he is known to virtually every college student.
(14) The trouble is we should never underestimate the conservatism of the literati ...
(15) Indeed, this was less a book launch with wine-sipping literati than a raucous anti-Zuma rally attended by top dissidents Tokyo Sexwale, Mathews Phosa and rebels from the ANC youth league.
(16) This new middle-class audience – small entrepreneurs, managers, travel agents, salespeople, secretaries, clerks – has an appetite for literary entertainment that falls between the elite idiom of the cultivated literati, who might be familiar with the novels of Amitav Ghosh or Salman Rushdie, and the Indian English of the street and the supermarket.
(17) The Golden Notebook "We should never underestimate the conservatism of the literati ...
(18) Once more following the Sophien-Ausgabe of Weimar, Author gives an extract from GOETHE's Letters to literati, scientists, and princes of his time, concerning notices on his employment about sciences without botany.