First Known Use: 15th century
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cognition
noun cog·ni·tion \käg-ˈni-shən\
: conscious mental activities : the activities of thinking, understanding, learning, and remembering
Full Definition of COGNITION
: cognitive mental processes; also : a product of these processes
— cog·ni·tion·al \-ˈnish-nəl, -ˈni-shə-nəl\ adjective
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Origin of COGNITION
Middle English cognicion, from Anglo-French, from Latin cognition-, cognitio, from cognoscere to become acquainted with, know, from co- + gnoscere to come to know — more at know
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Rhymes with COGNITION
addition, admission, ambition, attrition, audition, beautician, clinician, coition, commission, condition, contrition, demission, dentition, dismission, Domitian, edition, emission, ethician, fruition, ignition, Kittitian, lenition, logician, magician, Mauritian, monition, mortician, munition, musician, nutrition, omission, optician, partition, patrician, perdition, permission, petition, Phoenician, physician, Politian, position, punition, remission, rendition, sedition, submission, suspicion, tactician, technician, tradition, transition, transmission, tuition, volition
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cognition
noun cog·ni·tion \käg-ˈnish-ən\
Medical Definition of COGNITION
1
: cognitive mental processes
2
: a conscious intellectual act <conflict between cognitions>
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