perception

Meaning

Noun

• The organisation, identification and interpretation of sensory information.
• Conscious understanding of something.
• Vision (ability)
• Acuity
• 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.

Related

Similar words

• ken

Origin

• Borrowed from French perception, from Latin perceptiō ("a receiving or collecting, perception, comprehension"), from perceptus, perfect passive participle of percipiō; see perceive.