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Cognition synonyms

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perception
Insight or knowledge gained by thinking:
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  1. Insight or knowledge gained by thinking:
  2. The process of perceiving something with the senses:
  3. The understanding, knowledge, etc. gotten by perceiving
knowing
Awareness or familiarity
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  1. Awareness or familiarity
  2. The act or condition of having knowledge.
insight
The ability to discern the true nature of a situation, especially by intuition.
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  1. The ability to discern the true nature of a situation, especially by intuition.
  2. A clear understanding of the inner nature of some specific thing
  3. The ability to see and understand clearly the inner nature of things, esp. by intuition
grasp
A firm hold or grip.
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  1. A firm hold or grip.
  2. Understanding; comprehension:
  3. The power to hold or seize; reach
Find another word for cognition. In this page you can discover 7 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for cognition, like: perception, knowing, insight, grasp, judgment, knowledge and thought.

Sentence Examples

  • We cannot possibly have any cognition of how such an act is possible.

  • The foundations of cognition must be discovered by observation or analysis of experience so conceived.

  • The ultimate basis for the activity of cognition is given by the will.

  • Both cognition and volition are functions of thought as well as forms of moral action.

  • It does not seem necessary to endeavour to follow his minute examination of the principle of real cognition with the same fulness.

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