cogni-, cogn-, cognosc- +

(Latin: know, learn)


incognito
1. Someone who acts or travels in disguise so as to be unrecognizable.
2. The character, disguise, or name assumed by someone who is attempting to be unrecognizable.
3. With the real identity concealed; that is, to travel incognito.
4. The condition of having a disguised or concealed identity.
incognizance
Lacking knowledge or recognition.
incognizant
Not cognizant; that is, without cognizance, knowledge, or apprehension of; unaware, unconscious of.
incognoscent
Unknowing, ignorant.
incognoscibility
The quality or condition of being incognoscible; unknowableness.
incognoscible
1. Unknowable; beyond cognizance.
2. Incapable of being perceived or known.
metacognition
1. Awareness and understanding of one's own thought processes, especially regarded as having a role in directing those processes.
2. Awareness and understanding one's thinking and cognitive processes; thinking about thinking.
3. Knowledge of one's own thoughts and the factors that influence thatr thinking.
4. A metacognitive perception, notion, or intuition.
metacognitive
A reference to or relating to metacognition.
precognition
1. Of the nature of, or giving, foreknowledge.
2. The extrasensory perception of a future event.
recognition
1. The act of identifying someone or something on the basis of a past sighting or experience, the ability to do this, or the fact of being identified through having been seen or experienced before.
2. Appreciation of the value of an achievement: "His pioneering work never got the recognition it deserved."
3. Acknowledgment of the existence or validity of something: "They'll need recognition from the committee in order to proceed with the party."
4. Permission given by someone chairing a meeting to another person who has asked to speak.
5. The formal acceptance by one country of the independent and legal status of another country.
6. Something given or awarded as a token of acknowledgment or gratitude.
7. The sensing and conversion of data into a machine-readable form by a computer.
8. In biology, the ability of molecules with complementary shapes to attach to one another.
recognizability
The quality of being recognizable.
recognizable
Capable of being recognized; that which causes recognition.
recognizance
1. A bond or obligation of record entered into before a court of record or a magistrate, binding a person to do a particular act.
2. A formal agreement made by someone before a judge or magistrate to do something, e.g. to appear in court at a set date: "He was released on his own recognizance."
3. A security entered into before a court with a condition to perform some act required by law; on failure to perform that act a sum is forfeited.
recognize, recognizing
1. To identify a thing or person as a result of having seen or had some other experience of him, her, or it before: "If you saw her again, would you recognize her?"
2. To acknowledge someone's achievement; to show appreciation of, or give credit to, another's achievement: "We hope you recognize their contribution to the success of this sports event."
3. To allow someone to speak to a meeting: "The chair recognizes the representative."
4. To accept formally the independent and legal status of a country or regime: "Our government refused to recognize the military government."
5. To give or award something to a person as a token of acknowledgment or gratitude: "The council recognized his bravery with a medal.
6. Show in some way that someone is personally known: "She recognized old friends in the crowd with a smile and a wave."
7. To accept the validity or truth of something: "I recognize that I am at fault for the failure."
recognized
Generally accepted as being true, valid, worthy, or rightful: "He was the recognized authority on the Middle ages."

Inter-related cross references, directly or indirectly, involving word units meaning "know, knowledge; learn, learning": discip-; gno-; histor-; intellect-; learn, know; math-; sap-; sci-; sopho-.


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