Definition of "cognitive"

cognitive

/ˈkɒɡ.nɪ.tɪv/

adjective
comparative more cognitive, superlative most cognitive
1. Relating to the part of mental functions that deals with logic, as opposed to affective which deals with emotions.
  Quotations
  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.
  2013 July 9, Joselle DiNunzio Kehoe, “Cognition, brains and Riemann”, in plus.maths.org‎, retrieved 2013-09-08
2. Intellectual.
3. (linguistics, rare, obsolete) Cognate; to be recognized as cognate.
  Quotations
  Wanux "white man," cognitive with Aben. awanoch, now used for "Canadian Frenchman";
  1903, Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society Held at Philadelphia
noun
plural cognitives
1. (linguistics, rare, obsolete) A cognate.
  Quotations
  Abenaki awanoch, the cognitive of Penobscot awenoch, means Frenchman,
  1902, American Anthropologist