Words Like COGNITION

We have put together a list of words that are similar to COGNITION.

22 Alternative Words Similar to cognition

1 Knowledge Noun      Synonym Words Like Knowledge
2 Noesis Noun      Synonym Words Like Noesis
3 Perception Noun      Synonym Words Like Perception
4 Operation Noun      Hyponym Words Like Operation
5 Attitude Noun      Hyponym Words Like Attitude
6 Inability Noun      Hyponym Words Like Inability
7 Power Noun      Hyponym Words Like Power
8 Mind Noun      Hyponym Words Like Mind
9 Head Noun      Hyponym Words Like Head
10 Place Noun      Hyponym Words Like Place
11 Brain Noun      Hyponym Words Like Brain
12 Ability Noun      Hyponym Words Like Ability
13 Information Noun      Hyponym Words Like Information
14 Structure Noun      Hyponym Words Like Structure
15 Psyche Noun      Hyponym Words Like Psyche
16 Episteme Noun      Hyponym Words Like Episteme
17 Lexis Noun      Hyponym Words Like Lexis
18 History Noun      Hyponym Words Like History
19 Content Noun      Hyponym Words Like Content
20 Process Noun      Hyponym Words Like Process
21 Nous Noun      Hyponym Words Like Nous
22 Practice Noun      Hyponym Words Like Practice

10 definitions of cognition

1 The act of knowing; knowledge; perception.
2 That which is known.
3 the psychological result of perception and learning and reasoning
4 The mental process of knowing, including aspects such as awareness, perception, reasoning, and judgment.
5 That which comes to be known, as through perception, reasoning, or intuition; knowledge.
6 Knowledge, or certain knowledge, as from personal view or experience; perception; cognizance.
7 A mental act or process, or the product of an act, of the general nature of knowing or learning.
8 The formation of a concept, judgment, or argument, or that which is formed; the acquisition of knowledge by thinking, or the knowledge itself.
9 A mental representation (the act or the product) which, by the operation of sensory perception or thought, is made to correspond to an external object, though not, it may be, accurately. The word cognitio was the ordinary scholastic term in this sense. Cognition was occasionally used by Hobbes, Cudworth, and other writers whose vocabulary was strongly influenced by the Latin, but is rarely met with in later English before Hamilton.
10 In old Scots law, a process in the Court of Session by which cases concerning disputed marches were determined.
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