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

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

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• Hyphenation: cog‧ni‧tion

Noun

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.

Derived terms

• precognition
• hypocognition
• metacognition
• recognition

Related terms

terms related to cognition

• cognitive
• cognometrics

• cognizant
• recognize

Translations

process of knowing

• Armenian: իմացություն (hy) (imacʿutʿyun)
• Azerbaijani: qavrama
• Bulgarian: позна́ние (bg) n (poznánie), зна́ние (bg) n (znánie)
• Chinese:

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

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

• Japanese: 認知 (にんち, ninchi)
• Korean: 인지 (ko) (inji) (認知 (ko))
• Polish: poznanie (pl) n, percepcja (pl) n
• Portuguese: cognição (pt)
• Russian: позна́ние (ru) n (poznánije), восприя́тие (ru) n (vosprijátije)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: спознаја

  Roman: spoznaja (sh) f

• Spanish: cognición (es) f
• Turkish: biliş (tr), sadınım
• Ukrainian: пізна́ння (uk) n (piznánnja), пізна́ння (uk) n (piznánnja)
• Vietnamese: nhận thức (vi)

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• incognito