n :  knowledge or a system of knowledge covering general truths or the operation of general laws esp. as obtained and tested through the scientific method and concerned with the physical world and its phenomena .
 
 
 
Similar sounding terms:  sa·ni·es  sa·ni·ous  se·ne·cio   sense 
 
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