Perception

Noun

 * 1) Conscious understanding of something.
 * 2) Vision (ability)
 * 3) Acuity
 * 4) (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.

Related terms

 * perceive
 * percept
 * perceptual

Adjectives for Perception
triumphant; keen; dimmest; acute; quick startling; single; ominous; honest; innate intuitive; vivid; sharp; intellectual; mental artistic; sudden; passive; dreamlike; accurate; exquisite; prodigious; vague; confused sentimental; simultaneous; mystic; infallible subtle; extra-sensory; spiritual; cloud; sure steadfast; moral; awful; luminous; interior penetrating; practical; human.

Verbs for Perception
attain—; blind—; blunt—; clarify—; display—; dull—;  heighten—;  stimulate—; warp—; —adjusts; —aids; —appreciates; —apprehends; —fathoms; —matures; — scans; —warns.

Thesaurus
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

Etymology
< perception: <  perceptio: < percipere:, past participle perceptus:; see perceive.

Translations

 * Arabic: ادراك حسي
 * Catalan: percepció
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 * Dutch: perceptie, gewaarwording , waarneming
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 * Spanish: percepción
 * Urdu: حسی ادراک


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 * Hebrew: תפיסה, קליטה
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 * Portuguese: percepção
 * Urdu: حواس خمسہ کا ادراک


 * : persepsie
 * : percepto
 * : percepción