Perception

Etymology

< French perception < Latin perceptio (“‘a receiving or collecting, perception, comprehension’”)  < percipere, pp. perceptus (“‘to obtain, perceive’”); see perceive.

[edit] Noun

perception (plural perceptions)

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.

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