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Cognition

//kɒɡˈnɪʃ.ən// noun

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

    "human cognition"

  2. 2
    the psychological result of perception and learning and reasoning wordnet
  3. 3
    A result of a cognitive process. countable
  4. 4
    Knowledge; awareness. archaic, countable, uncountable

Etymology

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.

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