cognitive

cognitive
adjective Date: 1586 1. of, relating to, being, or involving conscious intellectual activity (as thinking, reasoning, or remembering) <
cognitive impairment
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2. based on or capable of being reduced to empirical factual knowledgecognitively adverb

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