perception

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 (“I perceive, observe”); see perceive.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /pəˈsɛpʃ(ə)n/
• (US) IPA^(key): /pɚˈsɛpʃ(ə)n/

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perception (countable and uncountable, plural perceptions)

1. The organisation, identification and interpretation of sensory information.
2. Conscious understanding of something.

   have perception of time

3. Vision (ability)
4. Acuity
5. (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.

• ken

• petite perception

• perceive
• percept
• perceptual

• perception in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• perception in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911

• preception

Borrowed from Latin perceptiō, perceptiōnem.

• IPA^(key): /pɛʁ.sɛp.sjɔ̃/

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perception f (plural perceptions)

1. tax collection
2. perception (clarification of this definition is needed)

• petite perception (philosophy)

• percevoir

• “perception”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• perception on the French Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^fr