Cognition

Definitions

1. The process of knowing, of acquiring knowledge and understanding through thought and through the senses.
   countable, uncountable
2. A result of a cognitive process.
   countable
3. Knowledge; awareness.
   archaic, countable, uncountable

Equivalents

21 more languages

العربيةالإدراكعلم

Azərbaycan dilibiliş

Българскизнание

Cymraeggwybyddiaeth

Danskerkendelse

Ελληνικάνόηση

Suomikognitiotajunta

עבריתהכרה

हिन्दीबोध

Magyarmegismerés

Italianoconoscenza

日本語認知

한국어인지

Latviešulietojums

Polskipercepcjapoznanie

Portuguêscognição

Русскийвосприятиепознание

ไทยวิญญาณ

Türkçebilişsadınım

Українськапізнання

Tiếng Việtnhận thức

Examples

“human cognition”

“social cognition”

“cognition research⟳”

“Children develop⟳ cognition rapidly in their early years.”

“The study⟳ focused on animal cognition.”

“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⟳?”

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