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perceptional

perceptional

7.7
Relating to how someone notices things using the senses
  • adjective
  • /pərˈsɛpʃənl/
translation icon : perceptual
  • The perceptional differences between individuals can affect their judgments and decisions.

Examples

  • Many factors can influence our perceptional understanding of reality.

  • In "Reading," Miller notes de Man's concentration on prosopopoeia in his later work and defines this trope as "a 'disfiguring' of the face and figure of the other, or the ascription of a consciousness like my own or different from my own to an appearance in the perceptional field" (344).

    Academic text (1996)

  • Training can enhance one's perceptional skills in recognizing patterns and details.

Synonyms

sensory
vsperceptional
54 3.8

Relating to what you notice with sight, hearing, taste, touch, or smell

emphasizes the mental act of noticing rather than raw bodily sensation
perceptual
vsperceptional
  • Specialized
13 6.9

About noticing things with your eyes, ears, or other senses

is the general term for being connected to how we notice things
sensorial
vsperceptional
1 7.4

Describes things that relate to the senses, like sight or touch

focuses on the mental process of noticing rather than raw bodily sensation

Surface Forms

perceptional positive

Morphology

perceptional = perception (transparent) = percept + ion + al

The adjective is formed regularly from the noun 'perception' with '-al', so the meaning 'relating to perception' is straightforward.

Etymology

Perceptional comes from the same root as perceive and perception; the Latin parts per- meaning 'through' and capere meaning 'to take' give the idea of 'taking in' information through your senses. That's why perceptional means 'relating to how we notice or understand things'.