cognition

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.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /kɒɡˈnɪʃən/
• (US) IPA^(key): /kɑɡˈnɪʃən/

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• Hyphenation: cog‧ni‧tion

cognition (countable and uncountable, plural cognitions)

1. The process of knowing, of acquiring knowledge and understanding through thought and through the senses.
2. (countable) A result of a cognitive process.

• precognition
• hypocognition

• cognition in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• cognition in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

• incognito