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cognitive

adjectivenounattested in dialogue

  • United Kingdom//ˈkɒɡ.nɪ.tɪv//
  • United States//ˈkɑɡ.nɪ.tɪv//
  • United States/[ˈkɑɡ.nɪ.ɾɪv]/
  • Canada//ˈkɒɡ.nɪ.tɪv//

Relating to the part of mental functions that deals with logic, as opposed to affective which deals with emotions.

adjective

  1. 1

    Relating to the part of mental functions that deals with logic, as opposed to affective which deals with emotions.

  2. 2

    Intellectual.

    In the modern analysis of ideas it is generally accepted that the ideological content must be distinguished from the cognitive value, that the functional genetic conditioning of thought is one thing and its scientific legitimacy another.

  3. 3

    obsoleteCognate; to be recognized as cognate.

    Wanux "white man," cognitive with Aben. awanoch, now used for "Canadian Frenchman";

Etymology

From Medieval Latin cognitīvus, from Latin cognitus, perfect passive participle of cognōscō (“to get to know”) + -īvus (adjective suffix).

noun

  1. 1

    obsoleteA cognate.

    Abenaki awanoch, the cognitive of Penobscot awenoch, means Frenchman,

Forms

plural
cognitives
comparative
more cognitive
superlative
most cognitive
The neighbouring pagesAlphabetical order follows the rules of the language, not byte values: an accent decides only between two otherwise identical words, and Spanish files Ñ as a letter of its own.

Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).