different between cognitive vs cognition

English

Etymology

From Medieval Latin cognit?vus, from Latin cognitus, perfect passive participle of cogn?sc? (“I know”) + -?vus (adjective suffix).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?k??n?t?v/

Adjective

cognitive (comparative more cognitive, superlative most cognitive)

1. Relating to the part of mental functions that deals with logic, as opposed to affective which deals with emotions.

   • Recent findings in cognitive neuroscience are also beginning to unravel how the body perceives magnitudes through sensory-motor systems. Variations in size, speed, quantity and duration, are registered in the brain by electro-chemical changes in neurons. The neurons that respond to these different magnitudes share a common neural network. In a survey of this research, cognitive neuroscientists Domenica Bueti and Vincent Walsh tell us that the brain does not treat temporal perception, spatial perception and perceived quantity as different.

2. Intellectual.
3. (linguistics, rare, obsolete) Cognate; which is to be recognized as cognate.
   • 1903, Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society Held at Philadelphia:

     Wanux "white man," cognitive with Aben. awanoch, now used for "Canadian Frenchman";

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Noun

cognitive (plural cognitives)

1. (linguistics, rare, obsolete) Cognate.
   • 1902, American Anthropologist:

     Abenaki awanoch, the cognitive of Penobscot awenoch, means Frenchman,

See also

• affective
• motor

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?.?i.tiv/, /k??.ni.tiv/
• Homophone: cognitives

Adjective

cognitive

1. feminine singular of cognitif

Italian

Adjective

cognitive

1. feminine plural of cognitivo

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): /k???n???n/
• (US) IPA^(key): /k???n???n/
• 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

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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