cognition means the process of knowing, of acquiring knowledge and understanding through thought and through the senses. Lexicurio rates it Rare gem — a strength score of 72 out of 100.
cognition is pronounced /kɒɡˈnɪʃ.ən/.
Why “cognition” is a great word
COGNITION — [Noun] The mental process of acquiring knowledge and understanding through thought, experience, and the senses. From Middle English cognicioun, from Latin cognitiō ("knowledge, perception"), from cognitus, past participle of cognoscere ("to know"), from co- ("together") + gnoscere/noscere ("to know"). First recorded in English in the late 14th or early 15th century. Unlike "perception," which is the raw intake of sensory data, or "intuition," which is an unmediated leap to knowing, cognition is the deliberate architecture of understanding. It is the child's patient sorting of blocks by color, the careful fitting of a key into a lock, the quiet sifting of memory for a precedent—the steady machinery that forges the raw material of experience into a world you can live in.
Etymology
From Middle English cognicion, cognicioun from Latin cognitiō (“knowledge, perception, a judicial examination, trial”), from cognitus, past participle of cognoscere (“to know”), from co- (“together”) + *gnoscere, older form of noscere (“to know”); see know, and compare cognize, cognizance, cognizor, cognosce, connoisseur.
noun
- The process of knowing, of acquiring knowledge and understanding through thought and through the senses.“human cognition”
- A result of a cognitive process.
- Knowledge; awareness.