noncognitive
- a word derived from cognitive.
Example Sentences
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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
The result is a vicious circle: family disruption perpetuates disadvantage by creating barriers to the development of cognitive and noncognitive skills, which in turn sharply reduces access to college.
From New York Times ● Mar. 23, 2017
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
