cognitive

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈkɒɡ.nɪ.tɪv/
• (General American, Canada) IPA^(key): /ˈkɑɡ.nɪ.tɪv/, [ˈkɑɡ.nɪ.ɾɪv]

  • Audio (Maryland)

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• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /ˈkɔɡ.nɪ.tɪv/, [ˈkɔɡ.nɪ.ɾɪv]

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.
   • 2013 July 9, Joselle DiNunzio Kehoe, “Cognition, brains and Riemann”, in plus.maths.org‎^[1], retrieved 2013-09-08:

     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; 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";

Derived terms

• acognitive
• amnestic mild cognitive impairment
• anticognitive
• Beck's cognitive triad
• biocognitive
• cognitariat
• cognitive behavioral therapist
• cognitive behavioral therapy
• cognitive behavioural therapist
• cognitive behavioural therapy
• cognitive bias
• cognitive control
• cognitive disability
• cognitive dissonance
• cognitive dysfunction syndrome
• cognitive estrangement
• cognitive linguistics
• cognitive load
• cognitively
• cognitive parallax
• cognitive poetics
• cognitive psychology
• cognitive relativism
• cognitive science
• cognitive therapy
• dyscognitive
• hypercognitive
• metacognitive
• metacognitively
• neurocognitive
• neurocognitively
• noncognitive
• normocognitive
• physiocognitive
• precognitive
• precognitively
• procognitive
• psychocognitive
• recognitive
• retrocognitive
• sociocognitive
• sociocognitively
• trauma focused cognitive behavioral therapy
• ultracognitive
• visuocognitive

 

Related terms

• cognate
• cogniscient
• cognition
• cognizable

 

Translations

relating to mental functions

• Arabic: إِدْرَاكِيّ (ʔidrākiyy)
• Belarusian: кагніты́ўны (kahnitýŭny), пазнава́льны (paznaválʹny)
• Catalan: cognitiu (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 認知的／认知的 (zh) (rènzhī de)

• Czech: kognitivní (cs)
• Danish: kognitiv
• Dutch: cognitief (nl)
• Esperanto: kogna
• Finnish: kognitiivinen (fi)
• French: cognitif (fr)
• Galician: cognitivo
• German: kognitiv (de)
• Greek: γνωσιακός (el) (gnosiakós), γνωστικός (el) (gnostikós)

  Ancient: γνωστικός (gnōstikós)

• Hungarian: kognitív (hu)
• Icelandic: skilvitlegur
• Italian: cognitivo (it)
• Kazakh: когнитивтік (kognitivtık)
• Malay: kognisi, kognitif
• Maori: hirikapo
• Persian: شناختی (fa) (šenâxti)
• Polish: poznawczy (pl) m, kognitywny (pl)
• Portuguese: cognitivo (pt)
• Romanian: cognitiv (ro)
• Russian: когнити́вный (ru) (kognitívnyj), познава́тельный (ru) (poznavátelʹnyj)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: когнитивни, спо̏зна̄јнӣ

  Roman: kognitivni, spȍznājnī (sh)

• Spanish: cognitivo (es)
• Ukrainian: пізнава́льний (piznaválʹnyj), когніти́вний (uk) (kohnitývnyj)

Noun

cognitive (plural cognitives)

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

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

See also

• affective
• motor

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɔ.ɲi.tiv/, /kɔɡ.ni.tiv/

• Audio

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• Homophone: cognitives

Adjective

cognitive

1. feminine singular of cognitif

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /koɲ.ɲiˈti.ve/
• Rhymes: -ive
• Hyphenation: co‧gni‧tì‧ve

Adjective

cognitive

1. feminine plural of cognitivo