Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The mental process of knowing, including aspects such as awareness, perception, reasoning, and judgment.
- n. That which comes to be known, as through perception, reasoning, or intuition; knowledge.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Knowledge, or certain knowledge, as from personal view or experience; perception; cognizance.
- n. A mental act or process, or the product of an act, of the general nature of knowing or learning. The act of acquiring any sort of idea; consciousness referring to an object as affecting the subject; the objectification of feeling; an act of knowing in the widest sense, including sensation, imagination, instinct, etc.: in this sense, discriminated as a function of the mind from
feeling and volition. - n. The formation of a concept, judgment, or argument, or that which is formed; the acquisition of knowledge by thinking, or the knowledge itself.
- n. A mental representation (the act or the product) which, by the operation of sensory perception or thought, is made to correspond to an external object, though not, it may be, accurately. The word cognitio was the ordinary scholastic term in this sense. Cognition was occasionally used by Hobbes, Cudworth, and other writers whose vocabulary was strongly influenced by the Latin, but is rarely met with in later English before Hamilton.
- n. In old Scots law, a process in the Court of Session by which cases concerning disputed marches were determined.
- n. Same as cognizance, 2.
- n. Cognition by direct insight, and not by ratiocination.
- n. Present perception of an object, with consciousness of it as an object.
- n. Knowledge more or less readily capable of practical application: opposed to speculative or metaphysical cognition, which is either incapable or not readily capable of such application.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The act of knowing; knowledge; perception.
- n. That which is known.
WordNet 3.0
- n. the psychological result of perception and learning and reasoning
Etymologies
- From Middle English cognicion, from Latin cognitio ("knowledge, perception, a judicial examination, trial"), from cognitus, past participle of cognoscere ("to know"), from co- ("together") + *gnoscere, older form of noscere ("to know"); see know, and compare cognize, cognizance, cognizor, cognosce, connoisseur. (Wiktionary)
- Middle English cognicioun, from Latin cognitiō, cognitiōn-, from cognitus, past participle of cognōscere, to learn : co-, intensive pref.; see co- + gnōscere, to know; see gnō- in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“This is consistent with Wikipedia's definition: "The term cognition Latin: cognoscere, "to know", "to conceptualize" or "to recognize" refers to a faculty for the processing of information, applying knowledge, and changing preferences.”
The Huffington Post: James A. Shapiro: Living Cells, Complex Systems and the Economy
“It should, however, be noted that there are similar difficulties in defining the term cognition Holyoak and Gordon 1984, p. 62, and, of course, rationality.”
“If there were any categories where blacks did better as a group, I think it would come down to comparability (i. e that cognition is not directly comparable because of different statistical strengths and weaknesses).”
The Volokh Conspiracy » But Isn’t It a Bit Hard to Predict With a 7-Year-Old?
“Behavior Therapy – encourage persons to behave differently can cause new changes in cognition”
“Bounded cognition is a huge problem for EMH — most people cannot actually grasp what is going on.”
The Volokh Conspiracy » Greenspan’s ‘The Crisis’ and Modigliani and Miller
“The Alzheimer's Association and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention say all adults can take steps to improve or maintain cognition:”
“Does everyone in ID think all this research into cognition is useless, a waste of money?”
“Besides being nice to look at (and a neat demonstration of fluid mechanics), this phenomenon also might throw some light on dolphin cognition, since the skill to create the rings is a bit subtle and tends to be taught from one dolphin to the next via careful observation and practice.”
“From the net-gang hobos (and their remarkable, cellular-automata driven fleamarkets) to the weird economic boom in cognition research, to the idea of leisure unions and anti-work activist techno-triumphalists, this book fizzes with awesome ideas.”
“Extremely low birth weight young adults reported more functional limitations in cognition, sensation, mobility, and self-care, compared with control subjects.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘cognition’.
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Words you can't find on the Thesaurus
My favorite, hard-to-find words - these aren't crazy words you'd never find in the dictionary, but the best moderate words I can find.
Napery, Chafe, Machination, Sacrilege, Sacrament, Marmoreal, Cynosure, Beget, Consumerism, Juxtapose, Mantra, Hedonistic and 155 more...
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vacation, suggestion, donation, condition, education, examination, federation, generation, imagination, invention, operation, pollution and 166 more...
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Psychology
Chapter 1
rigorous, occurrence, maze, divers, intellectual, expansion, all in all, sensation, introspection, radical, orientation, nurture and 174 more...
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Mirrored Vowels
Rules:
• The word must have an even number of vowels.
• There must be four or more vowels; thus, at minimum, an A-A-A-A or A-B-B-A pattern.
• The vowels must appear in a mir...feminine, solicitor, caruncular, repackager, semiprimes, fetishises, decomposer, demonlover, recomposer, sepultures, lipotropic, colesterol and 385 more...
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Words
phantasmagoria, eviscerate, avast, simulacrum, varicose, oblique, gestalt, ersatz, vernal, vivace, stellate, synecdoche and 330 more...
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11250 more...
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Psychology
stockholm syndrome, stereotype, ergonomics, human-computer in..., prejudice, neo-luddism, stress, trauma, psychopathology, psychotic, neurosis, depression and 180 more...
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Words build meanings from origins( et...
These come from gamma meditation ,I think.
discursive, exogenous, machinations, purportedly, sumptuous, congruity, cantankerous, incongruous, festoon, hessian, ratiocinative, stratigraphic and 2057 more...
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BIOL - the brain
ruptured blood ve..., clot, pressure on a blo..., tumor, brain region, comprehension of ..., production of mea..., autonomic nervous..., conservation of t..., catecholamine, arousal, regulation of sleep and 564 more...
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Philosophic , etymology
every major discipline has uniquely developed esoteric nomenclature to facilitate interdisciplinary dissemination
quale , qualia, elegy, tacet, lexicon, annunciate, caste, eros, contrive, purlicue, irony, venacular, dilapidate and 569 more...
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Ideas
brainchild, inspiration, muse, genius, eureka, discovery, intellectual prop..., intangible asset, goodwill, patented, savant, brainiac and 76 more...
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Latin Spelling Bee List
need to know these words!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
inane, ambivalent, incriminate, interrupt, amicable, meticulous, animosity, curriculum, electoral, transect, condolences, bugle and 132 more...
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reginaterra's Words
purl, blow, squish, andean, generality, adaptation, lush, pack, filter, acquiesce, abstraction, sweet and 508 more...
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fifi
verbs Adj Adv noun
indulge, convene, solve, dissolve, prospect, prospective, allege, resolve, accountable, administration, amid, agenda and 407 more...
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And another
retrocausality, brusque, gainsay, cheerio, jaundiced, chamois, caw, craw, fudge, bubbler, shebang, bolo and 244 more...
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There's a word for that?
temerity, tacit, froward, faineant, caterwaul, menagerie, ennui, sine qua non, lissom, multifarious, laconic, katzenjammer and 240 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for cognition.
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