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noncognitive

  • a word derived from cognitive.
    cognitive
    adjective
    of or relating to cognition; concerned with the act or process of knowing, perceiving, etc. .

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The second most important predictor was noncognitive skills—traits like resilience, self-esteem and conscientiousness.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 19, 2025

One intriguing issue is the gender difference in noncognitive skills.

From New York Times ● Mar. 18, 2016

Attending high school gives students more opportunities to learn such noncognitive skills, he said.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 31, 2015

So the idea of endowing my children with names that would force them to bite their tongues and thereby raise their noncognitive IQs was appealing to me.

From Salon ● Mar. 22, 2014

Without anyone realizing it, the coding test was measuring a critical noncognitive skill that mattered a lot in the grown-up world.

From Slate ● Sep. 5, 2012