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perception Definition

per·cep·tion (pər sep′s̸hən)

noun

    1. the act of perceiving or the ability to perceive; mental grasp of objects, qualities, etc. by means of the senses; awareness; comprehension
    2. insight or intuition, or the faculty for these
  2. the understanding, knowledge, etc. gotten by perceiving, or a specific idea, concept, impression, etc. so formed

Etymology: L perceptio < pp. of percipere: see perceive

perception Related Forms
per·cep′·tional adjective
perception Synonyms

perception

n.

  1. The act of perceiving

    comprehension, understanding, apprehending; see attention 2, judgment 2, study 2, thought 1.

  2. The result of perceiving

    insight, knowledge, observation; see attitude 2, opinion 1, plan 2, thought 2, viewpoint.

  3. The power to perceive

    discernment, perspicacity, sagacity; see acumen, judgment 1.

perception Usage Examples

Preposition: of

  • reality: How do donors ' and CSOs ' perceptions of this reality differ?

Possessives

  • respondent: The respondents ' negative perceptions toward PBL were consistent with the findings from previous studies.

Converse of object

  • alter: Production values can acutely alter audience perception of this scene.
  • differ: The most important of these are conflicting uses and differing perceptions of the role of the site.
  • reinforce: Schools often reflect and sometimes reinforce societal perceptions of young people who are viewed as different.
  • distort: Some examples were given of how corporate involvement may distort professional perceptions of independent scrutiny.
  • improve: We're able to simultaneously show the benefits of the product as well as to improve perception of the brand " .
  • challenge: The India exchange was initiated to explore and challenge northern perceptions of India.

Adjective modifier

  • sensory: But the eternal is not accessible to sensory perception.
  • auditory: Thus, AIM is a time-domain auditory model for studying the role of phase locking and temporal fine-structure in auditory perception.
  • visual: The work uses chance as much as design, relies on visual perception as much as the internal voice.
  • negative: The mean scores for the four central issues indicate a strong overall negative perception of the concept of inclusion.
  • subjective: The understanding of history is therefore informed and determined by coincidence and subjective perception.
  • categorical: The nature of categorical perception of color: An ERP study.

Noun used with modifier

  • hazard: Shoppers were also invited to take part in a hazard perception test.
  • speech: Development of cue weighting strategies in children's speech perception.
  • depth: When sight in one eye is affected it can affect our depth perception.
  • students': Chapter 6 describes the studentsâ perceptions and experiences of racism in school.
  • motion: Both Hare and Tortoise have normal vision, in particular, normal visual motion perception.
  • pitch: Both the spectral and time-interval profiles have the units of frequency, and together they can explain most pitch perceptions.
perception Quotes

If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite.

—Blake,William

Why level downward to our dullest perception always, and praise that as common sense?

—Thoreau, Henry David

It isn't what he says that counts as a work of art, it's what he makes with such intensity of perception that it lives with an intrinsic movement of its very own to verify the authenticity.

—Williams,William Carlos

It is singular that the Japanese, who rarely commit a solecism in taste in their national costume, architecture, or decorative art, seem to be perfectly destitute of perception when they borrow ours.

—Bird, Isabella married name Isabella Bishop

Down for a new radio, to Ross Lake, and back up. Three days walking. Strange how unmoved this place leaves one; neither articulate or worshipful; rather the pressing need to look within and adjust the mechanism of perception.

—Snyder, Gary Sherman

If I were a writer, how I would enjoy being told the novel is dead.How liberating to work in the margins, outside a central perception.Youaretheghoul of literature.Lovely.

—DeLillo, Don

In England we have come to rely upon a comfortable time-lag of fifty years or a century intervening between the perception that something ought to be done and a serious attempt to do it.

—Wells, H(erbert) G(eorge)

The function of criticism is the reeducation of perception of works of art† The conception that its business is to appraise, to judge in the legal and moral sense, arrests the perception of those who are influenced by the criticism that assumes this task.

—Dewey,John

   For my part, when I enter most intimately into what I call myself, I always stumble on some particular perception orother, of heat orcold, light or shade, pain or pleasure.I nevercan catch myself at any time without a perception, and never can observe anything but the perception.

—Humboldt, Alexander, Baron von