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Cognizant vs Cognitive - What's the difference?

cognizant | cognitive |

As adjectives the difference between cognizant and cognitive

is that cognizant is aware; fully informed; having understanding while cognitive is relating to the part of mental functions that deals with logic, as opposed to affective which deals with emotions.

cognizant

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Aware; fully informed; having understanding
    • The defendant is cognizant that this is a serious charge.

    Antonyms

    * unwitting

    See also

    * cognisant * cognize

    cognitive

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Relating to the part of mental functions that deals with logic, as opposed to affective which deals with emotions.
  • * {{quote-web
    • , date = 2013-07-09 , author = Joselle DiNunzio Kehoe , title = Cognition, brains and Riemann , site = plus.maths.org , url = http://plus.maths.org/content/cognition-brains-and-riemann , accessdate = 2013-09-08 }}
    Recent findings in cognitive' neuroscience are also beginning to unravel how the body perceives magnitudes through sensory-motor systems. Variations in size, speed, quantity and duration, are registered in the brain by electro-chemical changes in neurons. The neurons that respond to these different magnitudes share a common neural network. In a survey of this research, ' cognitive neuroscientists Domenica Bueti and Vincent Walsh tell us that the brain does not treat temporal perception, spatial perception and perceived quantity as different.
  • Intellectual

    • Related terms

    * cognate * cognition

    See also

    * affective * motor ----