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What is the noun for kenning?

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kenning
  1. (obsolete) Sight, view; specifically a distant view at sea.
  2. (obsolete) The range or extent of vision, especially at sea; (by extension) a marine measure of approximately twenty miles.
  3. As little as one can discriminate or recognize; a small portion, a little.
ken
  1. Knowledge, perception, or sight.
  2. (nautical) Range of sight.
  3. Synonyms:
      4. apprehension, awareness, comprehension, consciousness, grasp, knowledge, perception, realisation, realization, recognition, understanding, acquaintance, acumen, appreciation, apprehending, attention, cognizance, concept, idea, impression, insight, notice, notion, picture, realising, realizing, sense, vision, discernment, grip, cognition, conception, familiarity, percipience, apperception, hold, judgment, judgement, assimilation, command, mastery, knowingness, insight into, understanding of, comprehension of, intelligence, perspicacity, penetration, intellect, education … more
  4. Examples:
      5. “Total awareness is a discipline beyond the ken of us ordinary mortals.”
kenning
  1. (poetry) A metaphorical phrase used in Germanic poetry (especially Old English or Old Norse) whereby a simple thing is described in an allusive way.
kenning
  1. (zoology) A chalaza or tread of an egg (a spiral band attaching the yolk of the egg to the eggshell); a cicatricula.
ken
  1. (slang, Britain, obsolete) A house, especially a den of thieves.
  2. Synonyms:
      3. apprehension, awareness, comprehension, consciousness, grasp, knowledge, perception, realisation, realization, recognition, understanding, acquaintance, acumen, appreciation, apprehending, attention, cognizance, concept, idea, impression, insight, notice, notion, picture, realising, realizing, sense, vision, discernment, grip, cognition, conception, familiarity, percipience, apperception, hold, judgment, judgement, assimilation, command, mastery, knowingness, insight into, understanding of, comprehension of, intelligence, perspicacity, penetration, intellect, education … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “Total awareness is a discipline beyond the ken of us ordinary mortals.”
kennings
  1. plural of kenning
  2. Examples:
      3. “They composed and recited poems in a fairly simple verse form which relied heavily on alliteration and also the use of kennings.”
      “Obviously, in poetry where this was one of the most important mechanisms, the kennings for very common nouns are various and inventive.”
      “Many kennings are allusions that become unintelligible to later generations.”
kens
  1. plural of ken
  2. Synonyms:
      3. apprehensions, awareness, comprehensions, consciousness, grasps, knowledge, perception, realisation, realization, recognition, understanding, acquaintance, acumen, appreciation, apprehendings, attentions, cognizances, concepts, ideas, impressions, insight, notices, notions, pictures, sense, vision, grips, discernment, cognition, conception, percipience, apperception, familiarity, holds, mastery, assimilations, commands, judgments, judgements, knowingness, perspicacity, penetration, know-how, intellect, intelligence, acquaintanceship, intimacy, conversance, takes, perceptiveness … more
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