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perceptual

perceptual

13 6.9
About noticing things with your eyes, ears, or other senses
  • adjective
  • /pərˈsɛpʧuəl/
  • Specialized
translation icon : perceptual
  • We inhabit a very narrow band of perceptual space.
  • perceptual variation
  • perceptual continuum
  • perceptual judgment

But curiously, for Otto, that's not a perceptual process at all.

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Examples

  • We all look through our experiences and our programming through a perceptual filter.

  • A better explanation can be found in the development of the speakers' perceptual regions during speech acquisition.

    Academic text (2011)
  • Or suddenly something new comes into your field of, into your perceptual field in the first two or three seconds.

  • The experiences are based on one's perceptual experiences, not what really is.

    Academic text (1999)
  • And now we can move on and list the perceptual functions that one wants to test.

  • A new generation of scholarship includes the perceptual approach to the study of Chinese foreign policy.

    Academic text (1999)
  • And it might be from another dimension, or it might simply be a little bit outside our normal perceptual abilities.

  • This test is purely perceptual, tracking the child's eye movements and attractions.

  • Instruction focused specifically on improving perceptual abilities, reading and math skills, and prosocial behavioral skills.

    Academic text (2011)
  • The artist's work challenges our perceptual understanding of space and form.

Synonyms

sensory
vsperceptual
54 3.8

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

emphasizes the internal ability and process of sensing rather than stimuli
perceptive
vsperceptual
2 5.1

Able to notice things using the senses like sight or hearing

focuses more on the general process of sensing rather than personal skill
sensorial
vsperceptual
1 7.4

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

stresses the capacity and process of sensing rather than sensory appeal
perceptional
vsperceptual
7.7

Relating to how someone notices things using the senses

is also about the ability to sense as well as the process

Compounds

perceptual experience
  • Specialized
1 7.2

An experience you get through your senses, like seeing or feeling something

perceptual constancy
  • Specialized
8.3

Seeing things as the same even when light, distance or angle change

How Perceptual

psychoacoustic
  • Specialized
8.6
perceptual
  • Specialized
13 6.9
auditory
  • Specialized
28 5.2
acoustic
65 4.7

Surface Forms

perceptual positive

Morphology

perceptual = perception (transparent) = percept + ual

A regular adjective formed from the noun 'perception' with the productive suffix '-ual', so the meaning 'relating to perception' is directly inferable.

Etymology

The word perceptual comes from Latin parts per- 'through' and capere 'to take', the same root you find in capture and perceive. So to perceive something is to 'take in' information through your senses, and perceptual describes that process.