information

Facts you learn

Information is any knowledge obtained from study, observation, or research.

In a more particular sense, information is something you want to know about a subject: Do you have any information about the holiday public transportation schedule?

Information is never pluralized; if you want to talk about multiple instances, you say pieces of information.

knowledge

encyclopedia

Comprehensive subject-matter collection

proficiency · savvy · acumen · scholarship · learning · facts · lore · trivia · knowhow · mastery

news

headline

News article title

newspaper · article · press · media · coverage · bulletin · announcement · update · correspondent · editorial

intelligence

espionage

Covert intelligence gathering

  • CIAU.S. foreign intelligence service
  • spyCovert information gatherer
  • surveillanceSystematic observation of subjects

reconnaissance · counterintelligence · agent · MI6 · Mossad · intel · clandestine · covert · briefing · infiltration

insight

awareness

State of perceiving reality

recognition · comprehension · cognizance · enlightenment · illumination · grasp · clarity · revelation · discovery · epiphany

education

curriculum

Educational program's content plan

seminars · tutoring · research · thesis · literacy · instruction · briefing · orientation · training · handbook

data

database

Organized digital information collection

server · cloud · encryption · algorithm · processing · digital · network · bandwidth · download · upload

records

archive

Stored historical records

indexing · register · chronicle · annals · dossier · transcripts · documentation · ledger · inventory · log

theory

semantics

Study of linguistic meaning

signal · noise · entropy · redundancy · encoding · transmission · communication · message · symbol · syntax

Categories
Opposites
knowledge state

informationignorance

Absence of knowledge

unawareness · cluelessness · denseness · unknowing · obliviousness

communication intent

informationconcealment

Act of hiding something

secrecy · suppression · cover-up · withholding · censorship

epistemic clarity

informationmystery

Something unexplained or unknown

enigma · confusion · uncertainty · obscurity · the unknown

Phrases
Family

information superhighway, misinformation, informative, informational, disinformation, uninformative, bioinformatics, informatics, informatively

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