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< Middle English cognicion < Latin cognitio (“knowledge, perception, a judicial examination, trial”) < cognitus, past participle of cognoscere (“to know”) < co- (“together”) + *gnoscere, older form of noscere (“to know”); see know, and compare cognize, cognizance, cognizor, cognosce, connoisseur.

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Wikipedia cognition (countable and uncountable; plural cognitions)

  1. The process of knowing.
  2. (countable) A result of a cognitive process.

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