perception

English

Etymology

From Middle English percepcioun, from Middle French percepcion, from Latin perceptiō (“a receiving or collecting, perception, comprehension”), from perceptus (“perceived, observed”), perfect passive participle of percipiō (“I perceive, observe”); see perceive.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /pəˈsɛpʃn̩/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /pɚˈsɛpʃ(ə)n/

• Audio (GA)

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɛpʃən
• Hyphenation: per‧cept‧ion

Noun

perception (countable and uncountable, plural perceptions)

1. The organisation, identification and interpretation of sensory information.
2. Conscious understanding of something.

   have perception of time

3. Vision (ability)
4. Acuity
5. (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.

Synonyms

• ken

Derived terms

• chronoception
• petite perception

Related terms

• perceive
• percept
• perceptual

Translations

the organisation, identification, and interpretation of sensory information

• Bulgarian: възприятие (bg) f (vǎzprijatie)
• Finnish: aistiminen (fi)
• Hungarian: észlelés (hu)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: têgihîştin (ku) f

conscious understanding of something

• Arabic: اِدْرََاك حَسِّيّ‎ m (idraāk ḥassiyy)
• Bulgarian: схващане (bg) n (shvaštane), разбиране (bg) n (razbirane)
• Catalan: percepció (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 知覺／知觉 (zh) (zhījué), 感知 (zh) (gǎnzhī)

• Czech: vnímání (cs) n
• Dutch: perceptie (nl) f, gewaarwording (nl) f, waarneming (nl) f
• Finnish: havainnointi, havaintokyky, -tunne
• French: perception (fr) f
• Galician: percepción (gl) f
• Georgian: აღქმა (aɣkma), შეცნობა (šecnoba), შემეცნება (šemecneba)
• German: Wahrnehmung (de) f
• Greek: αντίληψη (el) f (antílipsi)
• Hungarian: felfogás (hu), megértés (hu)
• Italian: percezione (it) f
• Japanese: 知覚 (ja) (ちかく, chikaku)
• Latvian: uztvere (lv) f
• Maltese: perċezzjoni f
• Ottoman Turkish: ادراك‎ (idrak)
• Polish: percepcja (pl), postrzeganie (pl), spostrzeganie
• Portuguese: percepção (pt) f (Brazil), perceção f (Portugal)
• Romanian: percepție (ro), percepere (ro), discernere (ro), discernământ (ro)
• Russian: восприя́тие (ru) n (vosprijátije), перце́пция (ru) f (percépcija)
• Scottish Gaelic: toirt fa-near f
• Serbo-Croatian: percèpcija (sh) f, predodžba (sh) f
• Slovak: vnímanie n
• Spanish: percepción (es) f
• Swedish: uppfattning (sv) c, förnimmelse (sv) c
• Tagalog: watas
• Thai: การรับรู้ (th) (gaan-ráp-rúu)
• Ukrainian: сприйняття́ n (spryjnjattjá), перце́пція f (percépcija)
• Urdu: حسی ادراک‎ m
• Vietnamese: tri giác (vi)

vision (ability)

• Catalan: percepció (ca) f
• Dutch: zicht (nl) n, waarneming (nl) f
• Finnish: näkökyky, näkö (fi), näköaisti (fi)
• French: perception (fr) f
• Greek: όραση (el) f (órasi)
• Hungarian: látás (hu)
• Portuguese: percepção (pt) f (Brazil), perceção f (Portugal)
• Romanian: percepție (ro)
• Scottish Gaelic: toirt fa-near f
• Serbo-Croatian: percèpcija (sh) f, vȋd (sh) m

acuity — see acuity

that which is detected by the five senses

• Catalan: percepció (ca) f
• Czech: vjem (cs) m
• Finnish: aistimus (fi), havainto (fi)
• French: perception (fr) f
• Georgian: აღქმა (aɣkma)
• Greek: αντίληψη (el) f (antílipsi), διορατικότητα (el) f (dioratikótita), αίσθηση (el) f (aísthisi)

  Ancient: αἴσθησις f (aísthēsis)

• Hebrew: תפיסה‎ (tfissa), קליטה‎ (klita)
• Hungarian: érzékelés (hu), (including those detected within consciousness as a thought, intuition, deduction, etc.) észlelés (hu)
• Italian: percezione (it) f, sentore (it) m
• Portuguese: percepção (pt) f (Brazil), perceção f (Portugal)
• Romanian: percepție (ro)
• Russian: восприя́тие (ru) n (vosprijátije), реце́пция (ru) (recépcija)
• Scottish Gaelic: toirt fa-near f
• Serbo-Croatian: percèpcija (sh) f
• Slovak: vnem m
• Spanish: percepción (es)
• Ukrainian: сприйняття́ n (spryjnjattjá), чуття́ n (čuttjá)
• Urdu: حواس خمسہ کا ادراک‎

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Afrikaans: ^{(please verify)} persepsie f
• Esperanto: ^{(please verify)} percepto
• Spanish: ^{(please verify)} percepción (es) f

Further reading

• “perception”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• “perception”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• preception

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin perceptiōnem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pɛʁ.sɛp.sjɔ̃/

• Audio

  (file)

Noun

perception f (plural perceptions)

1. tax collection
2. perception (clarification of this definition is needed)

Derived terms

• petite perception (philosophy)

Related terms

• percevoir

References

• “perception”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Further reading

• perception on the French Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^fr