perception
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< French perception < Latin perceptio (“‘a receiving or collecting, perception, comprehension’”) < percipere, pp. perceptus (“‘to obtain, perceive’”); see perceive.
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perception (plural perceptions)
- Conscious understanding of something.
- Vision (ability)
- Acuity
- (cognition) That which is detected by the five senses; not necessarily understood (imagine looking through fog, trying to understand if you see a small dog or a cat); also that which is detected within consciousness as a thought, intuition, deduction, etc.
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conscious understanding of something
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vision
acuity
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that which is detected by the five senses
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[edit] External links
- perception in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- perception in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
