Perception

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  • noun. undefined
  • noun. The process of perceiving something with the senses.
  • noun. An instance of this.
  • noun. undefined
  • 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.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • 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.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • 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.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. Conscious understanding of something.
  • noun. Vision (ability)
  • noun. Acuity
  • noun. 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.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. knowledge gained by perceiving
  • noun. a way of conceiving something
  • noun. becoming aware of something via the senses
  • noun. the representation of what is perceived; basic component in the formation of a concept
  • noun. the process of perceiving