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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
Noun
cognition (countable and uncountable, plural cognitions)
- The process of knowing, of acquiring knowledge and understanding through thought and through the senses.
- (countable) A result of a cognitive process.
- (archaic) Knowledge; awareness.
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Translations
process of knowing
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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.
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