cognitive

UK/ˈkɒɡ.nɪ.tɪv/US/ˈkɑɡ.nɪ.tɪv/

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Cognitive means to do with knowing, thinking and remembering. Cognitive decline.

It covers everything the mind does with information rather than with feeling. Cognitive behavioural therapy is the phrase most people meet the word in.

Definitions of cognitive

1adjectivecognitiveTo do with knowing, thinking and remembering.C1
“The tests showed cognitive changes before anybody in the family had noticed.”

cognitive is a quality.

Where it comes from

Latin cognitivus comes from cognoscere, to get to know, from co plus gnoscere, to know.

Proto-Indo-European
*ǵneh₃-
Latin
cognitus
Medieval Latin
cognitīvus
English, today
cognitive

Built from

cognōscō · Latin — to get to know

From Medieval Latin cognitīvus, from Latin cognitus, perfect passive participle of cognōscō (“to get to know”) + -īvus.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practise this word

cognitive in the wild

Mental faculties of concern to cognitive scientists include perception, memory, attention, reasoning, language, and emotion.
Cognitive science
The typical analysis of cognitive science spans many levels of organization, from learning and decision-making to logic and planning; from neural circuitry to modular brain organization.
Cognitive science
Over time, cognitive behavior therapy became an umbrella term for all cognitive-based psychotherapies.
Cognitive behavioral therapy
Diagnosis is usually based on history of the illness and cognitive testing with imaging.
Dementia
While cognitive biases may initially appear to be negative, some are adaptive.
Cognitive bias

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Related words

the cognitus family

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