cognitive
Pluralcognitives
- 1Related to thinking, reasoning, and understanding, not to feelings.
Like the thinking part of your mind, not the feeling part.
Reading and counting are cognitive skills children learn early.
The puzzle tested her cognitive abilities, not her feelings.
Similarmental, intellectual, cerebral
Note
- 2Connected with thinking, learning, and using the mind.
Like a workout, but for your brain instead of your muscles.
Chess is a game that builds cognitive strength.
The class focuses on cognitive growth more than physical play.
Similarintellectual, mental, cerebral, academic
Oppositephysical
- 3Coming from the same origin or word family as something else.
Like cousins who share the same grandparents.
The two languages seemed cognitive, coming from one older language.
Wanux "white man," cognitive with Aben. awanoch, now used for "Canadian Frenchman";
1903, Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society Held at PhiladelphiaHere, cognitive means related, coming from the same older word.Note
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- 4A word that comes from the same origin as another word.
Like a long-lost relative who shares the same family line.
The scholar listed each cognitive beside its match in the older language.
Abenaki awanoch, the cognitive of Penobscot awenoch, means Frenchman,
1902, American AnthropologistHere, cognitive means a word that comes from the same origin as another.Note
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Origin
From Latin cognoscere, meaning "to get to know," plus an ending that makes it an adjective.