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Cognitive vs. Intellectual — What's the Difference?

Cognitive vs. Intellectual — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Cognitive and Intellectual

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Cognitive

Of, characterized by, involving, or relating to cognition
"For the person experiencing cognitive decline, the slow loss of coherent speech will be compounded by a declining ability to draw conclusions" (Joanne Koenig Coste).

Intellectual

An intellectual is a person who engages in critical thinking, research, and reflection to advance discussions of academic subjects. This often involves publishing work for consumption by the general public that adds depth to issues that affect society.

Cognitive

Relating to the part of mental functions that deals with logic, as opposed to affective which deals with emotions.

Intellectual

Relating to the intellect
Children need intellectual stimulation

Cognitive

Intellectual.
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Intellectual

A person possessing a highly developed intellect
A prominent political thinker and intellectual

Cognitive

Cognate; which is to be recognized as cognate.

Intellectual

Of or relating to the intellect.

Cognitive

Cognate.

Intellectual

Rational rather than emotional
An intellectual decision.

Cognitive

Knowing, or apprehending by the understanding; as, cognitive power.

Intellectual

Appealing to or engaging the intellect
An intellectual book.
An intellectual problem.

Cognitive

Of or being or relating to or involving cognition;
Cognitive psychology
Cognitive style

Intellectual

Having or showing intellect, especially to a high degree.

Intellectual

Given to activities or pursuits that require exercise of the intellect.

Intellectual

An intellectual person.

Intellectual

Pertaining to, or performed by, the intellect; mental or cognitive.
Intellectual powers, activities, etc.

Intellectual

Endowed with intellect; having a keen sense of understanding; having the capacity for higher forms of knowledge or thought; characterized by intelligence or cleverness
An intellectual person

Intellectual

Suitable for exercising one's intellect; perceived by the intellect
Intellectual employments

Intellectual

Relating to the understanding; treating of the mind.
Intellectual philosophy, sometimes called "mental" philosophy

Intellectual

Spiritual.

Intellectual

An intelligent, learned person, especially one who discourses about learned matters.

Intellectual

(archaic) The intellect or understanding; mental powers or faculties.

Intellectual

Belonging to, or performed by, the intellect; mental; as, intellectual powers, activities, etc.
Logic is to teach us the right use of our reason or intellectual powers.

Intellectual

Endowed with intellect; having the power of understanding; having capacity for the higher forms of knowledge or thought; characterized by intelligence or mental capacity; as, an intellectual person.
Who would lose,Though full of pain, this intellectual being,Those thoughts that wander through eternity?

Intellectual

Suitable for exercising the intellect; formed by, and existing for, the intellect alone; perceived by the intellect; as, intellectual employments.

Intellectual

Relating to the understanding; treating of the mind; as, intellectual philosophy, sometimes called "mental" philosophy.

Intellectual

The intellect or understanding; mental powers or faculties.
Her husband, for I view far round, not nigh,Whose higher intellectual more I shun.
I kept her intellectuals in a state of exercise.

Intellectual

A learned person or one of high intelligence;

Intellectual

A person who uses the mind creatively

Intellectual

Of or relating to the intellect;
His intellectual career

Intellectual

Of or associated with or requiring the use of the mind;
Intellectual problems
The triumph of the rational over the animal side of man

Intellectual

Appealing to or using the intellect;
Satire is an intellectual weapon
Intellectual workers engaged in creative literary or artistic or scientific labor
Has tremendous intellectual sympathy for oppressed people
Coldly intellectual
Sort of the intellectual type
Intellectual literature

Intellectual

Involving intelligence rather than emotions or instinct;
A cerebral approach to the problem
Cerebral drama

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