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Perception

Perception Meaning & Definition
Perception Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Perception?

[n] becoming aware of something via the senses
[n] the process of perceiving
[n] knowledge gained by perceiving; "a man admired for the depth of his perception"
[n] a way of conceiving something; "Luther had a new perception of the Bible"
[n] the representation of what is perceived; basic component in the formation of a concept

Synonyms | Synonyms for Perception: percept | perceptual experience | sensing

Related Terms | Find terms related to Perception: acuity | acumen | acuteness | apperception | appreciation | appreciativeness | apprehension | astuteness | awareness | clear sight | cogency | cognition | cognizance | color vision | comprehension | conceit | concept | conception | cone vision | consciousness | critical discernment | day vision | daylight vision | discernment | experience | eye | eye-mindedness | eyesight | fancy | farseeingness | farsight | farsightedness | feel | feeling | field of view | field of vision | flair | foresight | foresightedness | grasp | horizon | idea | image | imago | impression | incisiveness | insight | instinct | intellection | intellectual object | intuition | judgment | keen sight | ken | knowledge | longheadedness | longsightedness | memory-trace | mental image | mental impression | mindfulness | night vision | noesis | note | notice | notion | observation | opinion | penetration | percept | perceptiveness | percipience | peripheral field | peripheral vision | perspective | perspicaciousness | perspicacity | perspicuity | perspicuousness | photopia | power of sight | providence | purview | quick sight | range | realization | recept | recognition | reflection | representation | response | response to stimuli | rod vision | sagaciousness | sagacity | scope | scotopia | seeing | sensation | sense | sense impression | sense of sight | sense perception | sensibility | sensory experience | sentiment | sight | sightedness | supposition | sweep | theory | thought | trenchancy | twilight vision | understanding | unobstructed vision | view | vision | visual acuity | visual field | visual sense

See Also | auditory perception | basic cognitive process | beholding | cognition | cognizance | conceptualisation | conceptuality | conceptualization | constancy | detection | discernment | feeling | figure | form | ground | hearing | insight | internal representation | knowledge | lipreading | listening | look | looking | looking at | mental representation | noesis | pattern | penetration | perceptiveness | representation | seeing | sensation | sense datum | sense experience | sense impression | sensing | sensory activity | shape | smell | smelling | somaesthesia | somatesthesia | somatic sensation | somesthesia | sound perception | tactile sensation | tactual sensation | taste | tasting | touch | touch sensation | visual image | visual percept | visual perception

Perception In Webster's Dictionary

\Per*cep"tion\, n. [L. perceptio: cf. F. perception. See {Perceive}.] 1. 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. 2. (Metaph.) 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. --Sir W. Hamilton. Matter hath no life nor perception, and is not conscious of its own existence. --Bentley. 3. The quality, state, or capability, of being affected by something external; sensation; sensibility. [Obs.] This experiment discovereth perception in plants. --Bacon. 4. An idea; a notion. [Obs.] --Sir M. Hale. Note: ``The word perception is, in the language of philosophers previous to Reid, used in a very extensive signification. By Descartes, Malebranche, Locke, Leibnitz, and others, it is employed in a sense almost as unexclusive as consciousness, in its widest signification. By Reid this word was limited to our faculty acquisitive of knowledge, and to that branch of this faculty whereby, through the senses, we obtain a knowledge of the external world. But his limitation did not stop here. In the act of external perception he distinguished two elements, to which he gave the names of perception and sensation. He ought perhaps to have called these perception proper and sensation proper, when employed in his special meaning.'' --Sir W. Hamilton.

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