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cognition
[ kog-nish-uhn ]
noun
- the act or process of knowing; perception.
- the product of such a process; something thus known, perceived, etc.
cognition
/ kɒɡˈnɪʃən /
noun
- the mental act or process by which knowledge is acquired, including perception, intuition, and reasoning
- the knowledge that results from such an act or process
cognition
/ kŏg-nĭsh′ən /
- The mental process of knowing, including awareness, perception, reasoning, and judgment.
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Derived Forms
- cogˈnitional, adjective
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Other Words From
- cog·nition·al adjective
- noncog·nition noun
- self-cog·nition noun
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Word History and Origins
Origin of cognition1
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Word History and Origins
Origin of cognition1
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Example Sentences
Exercise improves not only physical fitness and health, but also mood and cognition.
Thinking and cognition can be inhibited, with executive function demonstrating particularly notable challenges.
He talks with doctors and scientists who study cognition, and cites a raft of research that bolsters his hypothesis.
The more data these folks accumulated, the more automatic our higher cognition began to appear to them.
Here are the four things cognizant people should know about the decade when computers mastered our cognition.
The free play of the faculty of cognition which had been determined by Kant is also developed by Schiller.
He brings another argument to prove that Cognition is not the same as true opinion.
Both opinion, and cognition, consist in comparisons and computations made by the mind about the facts of sense.
Second definition given by Theætêtus — That Cognition consists in right or true opinion.
If the man catches what is really a non-cognition, he will not suppose it to be such, but to be a cognition.
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