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Cognition vs Feeling - What's the difference?

cognition | feeling |

As nouns the difference between cognition and feeling

is that cognition is the process of knowing while feeling is sensation, particularly through the skin.

As an adjective feeling is

emotionally sensitive.

As a verb feeling is

.

cognition

English

Noun

(wikipedia cognition)
  • The process of knowing.
  • (countable) A result of a cognitive process.

    • Related terms

    * cognitive * cognometrics * cognizant * recognize

    Derived terms

    * precognition

    External links

    * *

    Anagrams

    * incognito

    feeling

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Emotionally sensitive.
    • Despite the rough voice, the coach is surprisingly feeling .
  • Expressive of great sensibility; attended by, or evincing, sensibility.
    • He made a feeling representation of his wrongs.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Sensation, particularly through the skin.
    • The wool on my arm produced a strange feeling .
  • Emotion; impression.
    • The house gave me a feeling of dread.
  • Emotional state or well-being.
    • You really hurt my feelings when you said that.
  • Emotional attraction or desire.
    • Many people still have feelings for their first love.
  • Intuition.
    • He has no feeling for what he can say to somebody in such a fragile emotional condition.
  • * 1987 ,
    • Got on a lucky one
    Came in eighteen to one
    I've got a feeling
    This year's for me and you
    I've got a funny feeling that this isn't going to work.
  • An opinion, an attitude.
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    • Derived terms

    * fellow feeling * hard feelings * hurt feelings

    Verb

    (head)

    • Statistics

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    Anagrams

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