cognition

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

• (RP) IPA: /kɒɡˈnɪʃən/, X-SAMPA: /kQg"nIS@n/
• (US) IPA: /kɑɡˈnɪʃən/, X-SAMPA: /kAg"nIs@n/
• Hyphenation: cog‧ni‧tion

Noun

Wikipedia cognition (countable and uncountable; plural cognitions)

1. The process of knowing.
2. (countable) A result of a cognitive process.

Related terms

terms related to cognition

cognitive cognometrics

cognizant recognize

Derived terms

• precognition

Translations

process of knowing

• Bulgarian: познание (bg) (poznánie) n, знание (bg) (znánije) n
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 認知 (cmn), 认知 (cmn) (rènzhī), 認識 (cmn), 认识 (cmn) (rènshi)

• Danish: kognition (da), erkendelse (da)
• Finnish: kognitio (fi), tajunta (fi)
• French: connaissance (fr) f
• German: Kognition (de) f, Erkenntnis (de) f
• Hebrew: הכרה (he) (hakara) f
• Hungarian: megismerés (hu)

• Italian: conoscenza (it) m
• Japanese: 認知 (ja) (にんち, ninchi)
• Korean: 인지 (ko) (inji) (認知 (ko))
• Polish: poznanie (pl) n, percepcja (pl) n
• Portuguese: cognição (pt)
• Russian: познание (ru) (poznánije) n, восприятие (ru) (vosprijátije) n
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: спознаја (sh)

  Roman: spoznaja (sh) f

• Turkish: biliş (tr)

External links

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

Anagrams

• incognito