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What is the noun for cognancy?

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cognate
  1. One of a number of things allied in origin or nature.
  2. (law, dated) One who is related to another on the female side.
  3. (law, dated) One who is related to another, both having descended from a common ancestor through legal marriages.
  4. (linguistics) A word either descended from the same base word of the same ancestor language as the given word, or strongly believed to be a regular reflex of the same reconstructed root of proto-language as the given word.
  5. Synonyms:
cognacy
  1. (linguistics) The relationship between cognates; the condition of sharing a common ancestor term in another language.
  2. (linguistics) The degree to which two languages share cognates, usually expressed as a percentage
  3. Synonyms:
cognati
  1. (law) relatives by the mother's side
cognation
  1. a cognate relationship
  2. Examples:
    1. “Perhaps the latter infers how close the cognation of the creative and the critical faculty.”
      “Sir H. Maine says that the prtors early laid hold on cognation as the natural form of kinship.”
      “Again, deportation to an island, which entails minor or intermediate loss of status, destroys rights by cognation.”
cognatus
  1. (law) A person connected through cognation.
  2. Examples:
    1. “Later, Hill reduced cognatus to subspecific status under P. rayneri.”
cognateness
  1. The state or quality of being cognate.
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “Using the same evolutionist principles of cognateness and continuity, he attempted to reconstruct a common Ur-Germanic mythology.”
      “This is a question related to the cognateness of a faculty's programs and mission, which is discussed briefly below.”
      “Much rather may we hold with scholars like Delitzsch and Kittel, that the relation is one of cognateness, not of derivation.”
cognancy
  1. (linguistics) Cognacy.
cognations
  1. plural of cognation
  2. Examples:
    1. “I sojourned with agnations and cognations, who are amnicolists and engaged in terraculture, or agricolation.”
cognates
  1. plural of cognate
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “More than a dozen words and cognates are employed throughout the Old Testament for beauty.”
      “The successful bilingual readers also mentioned strategies specific to bilingual contexts, such as use of cognates and translating.”
      “When you're done, you count up the number of cognates and compute the fraction of words that are cognate.”
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