cognition

noun

Etymology: From Middle English cognicion, cognicioun from Latin cognitiō (“knowledge, perception, a judicial examination, trial”), from cognitus, past participle of cognoscere (“to know”), from co- (“together”) + *gnoscere, older form of noscere (“to know”); see know, and compare cognize, cognizance, cognizor, cognosce, connoisseur.

1. The process of knowing, of acquiring knowledge and understanding through thought and through the senses.

   “human cognition”

   “social cognition”

2. A result of a cognitive process.
3. Knowledge; awareness.