perception
- noun
- /pərˈsɛpʃən/
- The survey measured the public's perception of climate change and its impacts.
- visual perception
- auditory perception
- speech perception
So for all these things to happen, you need perception and intelligence.
- So for all these things to happen, you need perception and intelligence.
- It somehow skews your perception in all those areas.
- We will experience gamma, heightened perception of the larger order of life.
- There is no perception without action, ever, ever.
- And so the visual system drives your time perception system, OK?
- You know, if I take my glasses off, my range of of good perception is drastically reduced.
- And that exhaustion can make all of these shifts in perception much worse.
- So there can be tissue damage without the physical perception or mental perception of pain at all.
- So it doesn't distort, you know, your perception.
- Either way, him becoming aware of this completely changed his perception of her, All right?
- So and maybe mathematics extends your perception capabilities, but it's still, it's still finite.
- Animals have an opportunity for sensory perception, cognitive evaluation and choice.
Examples
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The measure assessed an individual's perception of their personal status in their immediate social environment.
Academic text (2015) -
The Method subject creates the perception of her own identity through action.
Academic text (2017) -
Learning is getting your perception closer to reality, right?
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Now his memory and perception were perfect.
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So for all these things to happen, you need perception and intelligence.
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Here our perception of sound begins to take form.
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The second area is whether the child has a perception that the parent trusts him or her.
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Your powers of perception never cease to amaze me.
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The social environment in contrast to the natural environment plays a key role in self-perception.
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OK, hearing loss is intimately entwined with our perception and understanding of speech.
Synonyms
The ability to know what something means
A deep clear understanding of how something really is
Knowing about something or noticing it
The way someone thinks about or judges something
A quick feeling that something is true without thinking
Ability to understand the meaning of what you read or hear
The ability to notice and judge things clearly and wisely
Becoming aware of something and understanding it clearly
An ability to notice small details that others miss
Awareness that something exists or is happening
The ability to notice and understand things quickly and clearly
Noticing small details and understanding what they mean
Being quick to notice small details and other people's feelings
The ability to notice and understand things quickly
A quick ability to notice and understand things
Antonyms
Compounds
- Specialized
The ability to hear and understand musical sounds like pitch and rhythm
- Specialized
The sense of taste when taste buds detect chemicals in the mouth
- Specialized
Ability to notice and understand flavors in the mouth from food and drink
- Specialized
Noticing and reacting to pictures or sounds without being aware of them
- Specialized
A computer or robot's ability to see and understand images from cameras
How Perceptive
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Perception comes from Latin capere 'to take', like in capture. Think of someone who can 'take in' small details quickly; that quick 'taking in' is having good perception. So it means the ability to notice or understand things easily.