perception
nounUK /pəˈsɛpʃn̩/ · US /pɚˈsɛpʃ(ə)n/
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 (“to perceive, observe”); see perceive.
1
The organisation, identification and interpretation of sensory information.
2
Conscious understanding of something.
- have perception of time
3
Vision (ability)
4
Acuity
- Synonyms
- ken
- Derived terms
32 terms
afterperception, anorthoscopic perception, chemoperception, chronoception, depth perception, disperception, doors of perception, extrasensory perception, graviperception, heteroperception, imperception, magnetoperception, mechanoperception, metaperception, misperception, nociperception, nonperception, non-referential perception, osseoperception, overperception, perceptional, perceptionism, perceptionist, petite perception, photoperception, preperception, reperception, self-perception, somatoperception, space perception, underperception, visuoperception- Related terms
- perceive, percept, perceptual