Cogent vs Intelligent - What's the difference?
cogent | intelligent |
Reasonable and convincing; based on evidence.
Appealing to the intellect or powers of reasoning.
Forcefully persuasive.
Of high or especially quick cognitive capacity, bright.
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Characterized by thoughtful interaction.
Having the same level of brain power as mankind.
Having an environment-sensing automatically-invoked built-in computer capability.
As adjectives the difference between cogent and intelligent
is that cogent is reasonable and convincing; based on evidence while intelligent is of high or especially quick cognitive capacity, bright.cogent
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Adjective
(en adjective)- She presented a cogent argument, convincing her audience of the truth of her proposition.
Derived terms
* cogencyintelligent
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Alternative forms
* entelligentAdjective
(en-adj)F. E. Penny
Pulling the Strings, passage=Anstruther laughed good-naturedly. “[…] I shall take out half a dozen intelligent maistries from our Press and get them to give our villagers instruction when they begin work and when they are in the fields.”}}
