Perception

What do we mean by perception?

The process of perceiving something with the senses. noun

An instance of this. noun

The process or state of being aware of something. noun

Insight or knowledge gained by thinking. noun

The capacity for such insight or knowledge. noun

An insight or point of knowledge. noun

An interpretation or impression; an opinion or belief. noun

Originally, and most commonly down to the middle of the eighteenth century, cognition; thought and sense in general, whether the faculty, the operation, or the resulting idea. noun

The mental faculty, operation, or resulting construction of the imagination, of gaining knowledge by virtue of a real action of an object upon the mind. noun

An immediate judgment founded on sense or other real action of the object upon the mind, more or less analogous to what takes place in vision. noun

In law, participation in receipts; community of interest in income: as, the perception of profits. noun

The act of perceiving; cognizance by the senses or intellect; apperhension by the bodily organs, or by the mind, of what is presented to them; discernment; apperhension; cognition. noun

The faculty of perceiving; the faculty, or peculiar part, of man's constitution by which he has knowledge through the medium or instrumentality of the bodily organs; the act of apperhending material objects or qualities through the senses; -- distinguished from conception. noun

The quality, state, or capability, of being affected by something external; sensation; sensibility. noun

An idea; a notion. noun

Conscious understanding of something. noun

Vision (ability) noun

Acuity noun

The organisation, identification and interpretation of sensory information.

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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Adjectives that are often used to describe perception:
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Nouns that are often described by the adjective perception:
concept, communication, management, based, cognition, percepts, action.

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