perception

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perception

Etymology edit

From Middle English percepcioun, from Middle French percepcion, from Latin perceptiō (“a receiving or collecting, perception, comprehension”), from perceptus (“perceived, observed”), perfect passive participle of percipiō (“I perceive, observe”); see perceive.

Pronunciation edit

(Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /pəˈsɛpʃn̩/
(General American) IPA^(key): /pɚˈsɛpʃ(ə)n/
Audio (GA) (file)
Rhymes: -ɛpʃən
Hyphenation: per‧cept‧ion

Noun edit

perception (countable and uncountable, plural perceptions)

The organisation, identification and interpretation of sensory information.
Conscious understanding of something.
have perception of time
Vision (ability)
Acuity
(cognition) 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.

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the organisation, identification, and interpretation of sensory information

Bulgarian: възприятие (bg) f (vǎzprijatie)
Finnish: aistiminen (fi)
Hungarian: észlelés (hu)
Kurdish:
Northern Kurdish: têgihîştin (ku) f

conscious understanding of something

Arabic: اِدْرََاك حَسِّيّ‎ m (idraāk ḥassiyy)
Bulgarian: схващане (bg) n (shvaštane), разбиране (bg) n (razbirane)
Catalan: percepció (ca) f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 知覺／知觉 (zh) (zhījué), 感知 (zh) (gǎnzhī)
Czech: vnímání (cs) n
Dutch: perceptie (nl) f, gewaarwording (nl) f, waarneming (nl) f
Finnish: havainnointi (fi), havaintokyky, -tunne
French: perception (fr) f
Galician: percepción (gl) f
Georgian: აღქმა (aɣkma), შეცნობა (šecnoba), შემეცნება (šemecneba)
German: Wahrnehmung (de) f
Greek: αντίληψη (el) f (antílipsi)
Hungarian: felfogás (hu), megértés (hu)
Italian: percezione (it) f
Japanese: 知覚 (ja) (ちかく, chikaku)
Latvian: uztvere (lv) f
Maltese: perċezzjoni f
Ottoman Turkish: ادراك‎ (idrak)
Polish: percepcja (pl), postrzeganie (pl), spostrzeganie
Portuguese: percepção (pt) f (Brazil), perceção f (Portugal)
Romanian: percepție (ro), percepere (ro), discernere (ro), discernământ (ro)
Russian: восприя́тие (ru) n (vosprijátije), перце́пция (ru) f (percépcija)
Scottish Gaelic: toirt fa-near f
Serbo-Croatian: percèpcija (sh) f, predodžba (sh) f
Slovak: vnímanie n
Spanish: percepción (es) f
Swedish: uppfattning (sv) c, förnimmelse (sv) c
Tagalog: watas
Thai: การรับรู้ (th) (gaan-ráp-rúu)
Ukrainian: сприйняття́ n (spryjnjattjá), перце́пція f (percépcija)
Urdu: حسی ادراک‎ m
Vietnamese: tri giác (vi)

vision (ability)

Catalan: percepció (ca) f
Dutch: zicht (nl) n, waarneming (nl) f
Finnish: näkökyky (fi), näkö (fi), näköaisti (fi)
French: perception (fr) f
Greek: όραση (el) f (órasi)
Hungarian: látás (hu)
Portuguese: percepção (pt) f (Brazil), perceção f (Portugal)
Romanian: percepție (ro)
Scottish Gaelic: toirt fa-near f
Serbo-Croatian: percèpcija (sh) f, vȋd (sh) m

acuity — see acuity

that which is detected by the five senses

Catalan: percepció (ca) f
Czech: vjem (cs) m
Finnish: aistimus (fi), havainto (fi)
French: perception (fr) f
Georgian: აღქმა (aɣkma)
Greek: αντίληψη (el) f (antílipsi), διορατικότητα (el) f (dioratikótita), αίσθηση (el) f (aísthisi)
Ancient: αἴσθησις f (aísthēsis)
Hebrew: תפיסה‎ (tfissa), קליטה‎ (klita)
Hungarian: érzékelés (hu), (including those detected within consciousness as a thought, intuition, deduction, etc.) észlelés (hu)
Italian: percezione (it) f, sentore (it) m
Portuguese: percepção (pt) f (Brazil), perceção f (Portugal)
Romanian: percepție (ro)
Russian: восприя́тие (ru) n (vosprijátije), реце́пция (ru) (recépcija)
Scottish Gaelic: toirt fa-near f
Serbo-Croatian: percèpcija (sh) f
Slovak: vnem m
Spanish: percepción (es)
Ukrainian: сприйняття́ n (spryjnjattjá), чуття́ n (čuttjá)
Urdu: حواس خمسہ کا ادراک‎

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