Pertaining to, or fitted for, the laying hold of sensuous or mental impressions.

Of or pertaining to cognition, or to the action or process of knowing; having the attribute of cognizing. (See also quot. 1956.)

A non-etymological formation for cognitive, adj.; used sometimes, more especially, with an inchoative sense: apprehensive.

Knowing; cognitive.

Of or pertaining to cognition.

Of, relating to, or of the nature of perception.

Philosophy. attributive.

Of or relating to perception; of the nature of percepts.

Chiefly in the terminology of Haeckel: of or relating to the mental processes of thought; cognitive.