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cognition noun [ kɒɡˈnɪʃ(ə)n ]

• the mental action or process of acquiring knowledge and understanding through thought, experience, and the senses.
Similar: perception, discernment, awareness, apprehension, learning, understanding, comprehension, enlightenment, insight, intelligence, reason, reasoning, thinking, (conscious) thought,
Origin: late Middle English: from Latin cognitio(- ), from cognoscere ‘get to know’.


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