Noun

• S: (n) evidence, grounds (your basis for belief or disbelief; knowledge on which to base belief) "the evidence that smoking causes lung cancer is very compelling"
• direct hyponym / full hyponym
• direct hypernym / inherited hypernym / sister term
• S: (n) information (knowledge acquired through study or experience or instruction)
• S: (n) datum, data point (an item of factual information derived from measurement or research)
• S: (n) acquaintance, familiarity, conversance, conversancy (personal knowledge or information about someone or something)
• S: (n) fact (a piece of information about circumstances that exist or events that have occurred) "first you must collect all the facts of the case"
• S: (n) example, illustration, instance, representative (an item of information that is typical of a class or group) "this patient provides a typical example of the syndrome"; "there is an example on page 10"
• S: (n) circumstance, condition, consideration (information that should be kept in mind when making a decision) "another consideration is the time it would take"
• S: (n) background, background knowledge (information that is essential to understanding a situation or problem) "the embassy filled him in on the background of the incident"
• S: (n) descriptor (a piece of stored information that is used to identify an item in an information storage and retrieval system)
• S: (n) evidence, grounds (your basis for belief or disbelief; knowledge on which to base belief) "the evidence that smoking causes lung cancer is very compelling"
• S: (n) predictor (information that supports a probabilistic estimate of future events) "the weekly bulletin contains several predictors of mutual fund performance"
• S: (n) tip-off (inside information that something is going to happen)
• S: (n) stimulation, stimulus, stimulant, input (any stimulating information or event; acts to arouse action)
• derivationally related form
• S: (n) evidence (an indication that makes something evident) "his trembling was evidence of his fear"
• S: (n) evidence ((law) all the means by which any alleged matter of fact whose truth is investigated at judicial trial is established or disproved)

Verb

• S: (v) attest, certify, manifest, demonstrate, evidence (provide evidence for; stand as proof of; show by one's behavior, attitude, or external attributes) "His high fever attested to his illness"; "The buildings in Rome manifest a high level of architectural sophistication"; "This decision demonstrates his sense of fairness"
• S: (v) testify, bear witness, prove, evidence, show (provide evidence for) "The blood test showed that he was the father"; "Her behavior testified to her incompetence"
• S: (v) tell, evidence (give evidence) "he was telling on all his former colleague"