cognition

Meaning

Noun

• The process of knowing, of acquiring knowledge and understanding through thought and through the senses.
• A result of a cognitive process.

Origin

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