Word of the Day: Cognitive

cog·ni·tive

adjective \ˈkäg-nə-tiv\

: of, relating to, or involving conscious mental activities (such as thinking, understanding, learning, and remembering)

Full Definition of COGNITIVE

1:  of, relating to, being, or involving conscious intellectual activity (as thinking, reasoning, or remembering) <cognitive impairment>

2:  based on or capable of being reduced to empirical factual knowledge

— cog·ni·tive·ly adverb

Examples of COGNITIVE

1. Homo sapiens’ survival is founded in their filling an evolutionary niche referred to as the cognitive niche. —Daniel Grassam, Skeptical Inquirer, July/August 2001

Origin of COGNITIVE

(see cognition)

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