Definition of perception

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Perception (n.) The act of perceiving; cognizance by the senses or intellect; apperhension by the bodily organs, or by the mind, of what is presented to them; discernment; apperhension; cognition..

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Sound :: Sound (n.) The peceived object occasioned by the impulse or vibration of a material substance affecting the ear; a sensation or perception of the mind received through the ear, and produced by the impulse or vibration of the air or other medium with which the ear is in contact; the effect of an impression made on the organs of hearing by an impulse or vibration of the air caused by a collision of bodies, or by other means; noise; report; as, the sound of a drum; the sound of the human voice; a h
Taste :: Taste (v. i.) To have perception, experience, or enjoyment; to partake; as, to taste of nature's bounty..
Feel :: Feel (v. i.) To appear to the touch; to give a perception; to produce an impression by the nerves of sensation; -- followed by an adjective describing the kind of sensation.
Kinaesthesis :: Kinaesthesis (n.) The perception attendant upon the movements of the muscles.
Apprehension :: Apprehension (n.) The act of grasping with the intellect; the contemplation of things, without affirming, denying, or passing any judgment; intellection; perception..
Dim-sighted :: Dim-sighted (a.) Having dim sight; lacking perception.
Sagacity :: Sagacity (n.) The quality of being sagacious; quickness or acuteness of sense perceptions; keenness of discernment or penetration with soundness of judgment; shrewdness.
Conception :: Conception (n.) The power or faculty of apprehending of forming an idea in the mind; the power of recalling a past sensation or perception.
Dull :: Dull (v. t.) To make dull, stupid, or sluggish; to stupefy, as the senses, the feelings, the perceptions, and the like..
Sense :: Sense (v. t.) Perception by the sensory organs of the body; sensation; sensibility; feeling.
Insentiment :: Insentiment (a.) Not sentient; not having perception, or the power of perception..
Reperception :: Reperception (n.) The act of perceiving again; a repeated perception of the same object.
Dimness :: Dimness (n.) Dullness, or want of clearness, of vision or of intellectual perception..
Obtuse :: Obtuse (superl.) Not having acute sensibility or perceptions; dull; stupid; as, obtuse senses..
Sagacious :: Sagacious (a.) Hence, of quick intellectual perceptions; of keen penetration and judgment; discerning and judicious; knowing; far-sighted; shrewd; sage; wise; as, a sagacious man; a sagacious remark..
Regard :: Regard (v. t.) That view of the mind which springs from perception of value, estimable qualities, or anything that excites admiration; respect; esteem; reverence; affection; as, to have a high regard for a person; -- often in the plural..
Nicety :: Nicety (n.) Delicacy or exactness of perception; minuteness of observation or of discrimination; precision.
Pseudaesthesia :: Pseudaesthesia (n.) False or imaginary feeling or sense perception such as occurs in hypochondriasis, or such as is referred to an organ that has been removed, as an amputated foot..
Sensual :: Sensual (a.) Pertaining to, consisting in, or affecting, the sense, or bodily organs of perception; relating to, or concerning, the body, in distinction from the spirit..
Intuitionalism :: Intuitionalism (n.) The doctrine that the perception or recognition of primary truth is intuitive, or direct and immediate; -- opposed to sensationalism, and experientialism..
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