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recognitive

recognitive

8.2
Helps you know who someone is or what something is from sight and sound
  • adjective
  • /ˌrɛkəɡˈnɪtɪv/
  • US
: reconocitivo
  • The study focused on the recognitive processes involved in learning new languages.
  • recognitive relations

Examples

  • Secondly, I will argue that such a comparative reading allows us to appreciate how in the lecture series Dewey has developed the notion of dominant patterns into a theory of social domination that is basically described in terms of habitualized recognitive relations.

    Academic text (2017)

  • The children's recognitive skills improved significantly after the school implemented new teaching methods.

  • He has a recognitive ability to identify faces he has seen only once before.

Synonyms

identificational
vsrecognitive
8.6

About showing who or what something is

focuses on sensing familiarity rather than naming something exactly

Antonyms

unperceiving
1 8.6

Not noticing things around you

Surface Forms

recognitive positive

Morphology

recognitive = recognize (transparent) = recognize + ive

The adjective is formed by adding the productive suffix '-ive' to the familiar verb 'recognize', so its meaning 'relating to recognition' is directly derivable.

Etymology

Recognitive comes from parts that mean 'again' (re-) and 'know', and it shares this idea with the common word recognize. So recognitive describes something relating to recognizing or to the ability to know and remember things.