cognoscitive
English
editEtymology
editFrom Latin cognōscō (“to know”) + -itive.
Adjective
editcognoscitive (not comparable)
- having the power of knowing
- 1915, Thomas Aquinas, Treatise on Habits:
- And therefore the act of knowledge is terminated in the intellect; and for this reason the cognoscitive virtues are in the intellect itself, or the reason.