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perception

/pəˈsɛpʃ(ə)n/

noun

Meaning

  • The organisation, identification and interpretation of sensory information.

  • Conscious understanding of something.

  • Vision (ability)

  • Acuity

  • (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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