LEARNING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does learning mean? 

• LEARNING (noun)
  The noun LEARNING has 2 senses:

1. the cognitive process of acquiring skill or knowledge

2. profound scholarly knowledge

  Familiarity information: LEARNING used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LEARNING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The cognitive process of acquiring skill or knowledge

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

acquisition; learning

Context example:

the child's acquisition of language

Hypernyms ("learning" is a kind of...):

basic cognitive process (cognitive processes involved in obtaining and storing knowledge)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "learning"):

conditioning (a learning process in which an organism's behavior becomes dependent on the occurrence of a stimulus in its environment)

developmental learning (learning that takes place as a normal part of cognitive development)

digestion (learning and coming to understand ideas and information)

education (the gradual process of acquiring knowledge)

incorporation; internalisation; internalization (learning (of values or attitudes etc.) that is incorporated within yourself)

imprinting (a learning process in early life whereby species specific patterns of behavior are established)

language learning (learning to use a language)

committal to memory; memorisation; memorization (learning so as to be able to remember verbatim)

study; work (applying the mind to learning and understanding a subject (especially by reading))

carry-over; transfer; transfer of training (application of a skill learned in one situation to a different but similar situation)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Profound scholarly knowledge

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

encyclopaedism; encyclopedism; eruditeness; erudition; learnedness; learning; scholarship

Hypernyms ("learning" is a kind of...):

education (knowledge acquired by learning and instruction)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "learning"):

letters (scholarly attainment)

 Context examples 

Most infections in people are mild but the virus sometimes—particularly in children—enters the brain, infects neurons and causes disease ranging from learning and memory difficulties to paralysis, seizures and death.

(Cerebral organoid model provides clues about how to prevent virus-induced brain cell death, National Institutes of Health)

They may affect mental ability, such as learning disorders.

(Developmental Disabilities, NIH: National Institute of Child Health and Human Development)

Nevertheless, it is not clear if sleep allows for more sophisticated forms of learning.

(Learning While Sleeping?, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

There are people enough to tread upon me in my lowly state, without my doing outrage to their feelings by possessing learning.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

The examination of the cognitive capacities or deficits of an individual through the application of tests that probe that individual's ability to perform various mental activities such as perception, learning, and reasoning.

(Cognitive Assessment, NCI Thesaurus)

You are meeting new people, learning new things, and making your own decisions.

(College Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)

The results also suggest that babies of depressed mothers may show less evidence of learning because of a weakened neural connection between mother and infant.

(Mothers’ and babies’ brains ‘more in tune’ when mother is happy, University of Cambridge)

It was the curiosity of growth that urged him on—the necessity of learning and living and doing that brings experience.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

He's getting great bumps over his eyes, and learning to ask the most unanswerable questions.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

The branch of psychology concerned with psychological aspects of teaching and the formal learning process in school.

(Educational Psychology, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)