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cognition en · NOUN

Pronunciation

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• /koɡˈnɪʃ.ən/ (Australia)
• /kɑɡˈnɪʃ.ən/ (General-American, cot-caught-merger, dialectal) of Canada
• /kɒɡˈnəʃ.ən/ (New-Zealand)
• /kɒɡˈnɪʃ.ən/ (Canada, dialectal) of the US
• /kɒɡˈnɪʃ.ən/ (Received-Pronunciation)
• [kɔ̟ɡˈnəʃ.ən] (New-Zealand)
• /kɔɡˈnɪʃ.ən/ General American, lot–cloth split

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ḱe? Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm Proto-Italic *kom Proto-Italic *kom- Latin con- Proto-Indo-European *ǵneh₃- Proto-Indo-European *-sḱéti Proto-Indo-European *ǵn̥h₃sḱéti Proto-Italic *gnōskō Latin gnōscō Latin gnōscō Latin cognōscō Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *-Hō Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō Proto-Italic *-tiō Latin -tiō Latin cognitiōder. Middle English cognicioun English cognition From Middle English cognicion, cognicioun from Latin cognitiō (“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.

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) The process of knowing, of acquiring knowledge and understanding through thought and through the senses.
   • That all our Cognition begins with Experience, there is not any doubt; for how otherwise should the faculty of cognition be awakened into exercise, if this did not occur through objects which affect our senses, and partly of themselves produce representations, and partly bring our Understanding-capacity into action, to compare these, to connect, or to separate them, and in this way to work up the rude matter of sensible impressions into a cognition of objects, which is termed experience? 1838, Immanuel Kant, “Introduction. I. Of the Difference between Pure and Empirical Cognition.”, in [Francis Haywood], transl., Critick of Pure Reason […], London: William Pickering, →OCLC, page 3:
   • The study focused on animal cognition.
   • cognition research
   • Children develop cognition rapidly in their early years.
   • human cognition
   • social cognition
2. (countable) A result of a cognitive process.
3. (archaic, countable, uncountable) Knowledge; awareness.

Forms

Coordinates

thinking · thought · noesis

Deriveds

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

Relateds

cognometrics · recognize · cognitive · cognizant

Translations (40)

ru позна́ние (process of knowing) · da erkendelse (process of knowing) · hy իմացություն (process of knowing) · fi tajunta (process of knowing) · az qavrama (process of knowing) · ja 認知 (process of knowing) · gl cognición (process of knowing) · ru восприя́тие (process of knowing) · ca cognició (process of knowing) · de Erkenntnis (process of knowing) · hu megismerés (process of knowing) · bg позна́ние (process of knowing) · he הכרה (process of knowing) · pa ਸੰਗਿਆਨ (process of knowing) · es cognición (process of knowing) · pt cognição (process of knowing) · pl poznanie (process of knowing) · fi kognitio (process of knowing) · cmn 認知 /认知 (process of knowing) · ko 인지 (process of knowing) · bg зна́ние (process of knowing) · vi nhận thức (process of knowing) · hi संज्ञान (process of knowing) · sh спознаја (process of knowing) · sk poznávanie (process of knowing) · mi hirikapo (process of knowing) · uk пізна́ння (process of knowing) · az biliş (process of knowing) · hi बोध (process of knowing) · de Kognition (process of knowing) · cy gwybyddiaeth (process of knowing) · cmn 認識 /认识 (process of knowing) · sh spoznaja (process of knowing) · tr sadınım (process of knowing) · da kognition (process of knowing) · pl percepcja (process of knowing) · fr connaissance (process of knowing) · tr biliş (process of knowing) · lt pažinimas (process of knowing) · it conoscenza (process of knowing)