cognition

English

Etymology

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.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /kɒɡˈnɪʃ.ən/
• (General American, lot–cloth split) IPA^(key): /kɔɡˈnɪʃ.ən/
• (General American, cot–caught merger, dialects of Canada) IPA^(key): /kɑɡˈnɪʃ.ən/

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• (Canada, dialects of the US) IPA^(key): /kɒɡˈnɪʃ.ən/
• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /koɡˈnɪʃ.ən/
• (New Zealand) IPA^(key): /kɒɡˈnəʃ.ən/, [kɔ̟ɡˈnəʃ.ən]
• Hyphenation: cog‧ni‧tion

Noun

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cognition

Wikipedia

cognition (countable and uncountable, plural cognitions)

1. The process of knowing, of acquiring knowledge and understanding through thought and through the senses.

   Coordinate terms: thought, thinking (loosely synonymous); noesis

2. (countable) A result of a cognitive process.
3. (archaic) Knowledge; awareness.

Derived terms

• biocognition
• cognification
• cognite
• cognitional
• cognitohazard
• cognitologist
• cognitology
• commognition
• enclothed cognition
• hypocognition
• implicit cognition
• incognition
• intercognition
• intracognition
• metacognition
• miscognition
• neurocognition
• noncognition
• postcognition
• precognition
• recognition
• retrocognition

Related terms

• cognitive
• cognizant
• cognometrics
• recognize

Translations

process of knowing

Armenian: իմացություն (hy) (imacʻutʻyun) Azerbaijani: qavrama Bulgarian: позна́ние (bg) n (poznánie), зна́ние (bg) n (znánie) Catalan: cognició (ca) f Chinese: Mandarin: 認知 / 认知 (zh) (rènzhī), 認識 / 认识 (zh) (rènshi) Danish: kognition, erkendelse Finnish: kognitio (fi), tajunta (fi) French: connaissance (fr) f Galician: cognición (gl) f German: Kognition (de) f, Erkenntnis (de) f Hebrew: הכרה (he) f (hakara) Hindi: संज्ञान (hi) (sañjñān), बोध (hi) (bodh) Hungarian: megismerés (hu) Italian: conoscenza (it) f Japanese: 認知 (ja) (にんち, ninchi) Korean: 인지(認知) (ko) (inji) Lithuanian: pažinimas (lt) m Maori: hirikapo Polish: poznanie (pl) n, percepcja (pl) n Portuguese: cognição (pt) Punjabi: ਸੰਗਿਆਨ (saṅgiāna) Russian: позна́ние (ru) n (poznánije), восприя́тие (ru) n (vosprijátije) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: спознаја Roman: spoznaja (sh) f Slovak: poznávanie Spanish: cognición (es) f Turkish: biliş (tr), sadınım Ukrainian: пізна́ння (uk) n (piznánnja) Vietnamese: nhận thức (vi) Welsh: gwybyddiaeth (cy) f

Further reading

• “cognition”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “cognition”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

Anagrams

• incognito