history vs cognition

cognition vs history

history and cognition both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
history	Yes	No	No	No
cognition	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, cognition is a hypernym of history; that is, cognition is a word with a broader meaning than history:

history: all that is remembered of the past as preserved in writing; a body of knowledge
cognition: the psychological result of perception and learning and reasoning

Other hypernyms of history include knowledge, noesis.

history (noun)	cognition (noun)
the discipline that records and interprets past events involving human beings	the psychological result of perception and learning and reasoning
all that is remembered of the past as preserved in writing; a body of knowledge
a record or narrative description of past events
the aggregate of past events
the continuum of events occurring in succession leading from the past to the present and even into the future

Difference between history and cognition

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