perception
The organisation, identification and interpretation of sensory information.
Other meanings
Conscious understanding of something.
“have perception of time”
Vision ability en
Related words
- afterperception
- chemoperception
- disperception
- graviperception
- heteroperception
- imperception
- magnetoperception
- mechanoperception
- metaperception
- misperception
- nociperception
- nonperception
Example sentences
Word history
From Latin "perceptiō" (a receiving or collecting, perception, comprehension).
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “perception” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; example sentences are from Tatoeba, credited to their authors above, published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.