Perceptionnoun
Organization, identification, and interpretation of sensory information.
Perceptionnoun
Conscious understanding of something.
Perceptionnoun
Vision (ability)
Perceptionnoun
Acuity
Perceptionnoun
(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.
Perceptionnoun
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.
Perceptionnoun
The faculty of perceiving; the faculty, or peculiar part, of man's constitution by which he has knowledge through the medium or instrumentality of the bodily organs; the act of apperhending material objects or qualities through the senses; - distinguished from conception.
Perceptionnoun
The quality, state, or capability, of being affected by something external; sensation; sensibility.
Perceptionnoun
An idea; a notion.
Perceptionnoun
the representation of what is perceived; basic component in the formation of a concept
Perceptionnoun
a way of conceiving something;
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the process of perceiving
Perceptionnoun
knowledge gained by perceiving;
Perceptionnoun
becoming aware of something via the senses
Perception
Perception (from the Latin perceptio, meaning gathering or receiving) is the organization, identification, and interpretation of sensory information in order to represent and understand the presented information or environment.All perception involves signals that go through the nervous system, which in turn result from physical or chemical stimulation of the sensory system. For example, vision involves light striking the retina of the eye; smell is mediated by odor molecules; and hearing involves pressure waves.
Intuitionnoun
Immediate cognition without the use of conscious rational processes.
Intuitionnoun
A perceptive insight gained by the use of this faculty.
Intuitionnoun
A looking after; a regard to.
Intuitionnoun
Direct apprehension or cognition; immediate knowledge, as in perception or consciousness; - distinguished from "mediate" knowledge, as in reasoning; as, the mind knows by intuition that black is not white, that a circle is not a square, that three are more than two, etc.; quick or ready insight or apprehension.
Intuitionnoun
Any object or truth discerned by intuition.
Intuitionnoun
Any quick insight, recognized immediately without a reasoning process; a belief arrived at unconsciously; - often it is based on extensive experience of a subject.
Intuitionnoun
The ability to have insight into a matter without conscious thought; as, his chemical intuition allowed him to predict compound conformations without any conscious calculation; a mother's intuition often tells her what is best for her child.
Intuitionnoun
instinctive knowing (without the use of rational processes)
Intuitionnoun
an impression that something might be the case;
Intuitionnoun
the ability to understand something instinctively, without the need for conscious reasoning
Intuitionnoun
a thing that one knows or considers likely from instinctive feeling rather than conscious reasoning
Intuition
Intuition is the ability to acquire knowledge without recourse to conscious reasoning. Different fields use the word in very different ways, including but not limited to: direct access to unconscious knowledge; unconscious cognition; inner sensing; inner insight to unconscious pattern-recognition; and the ability to understand something instinctively, without any need for conscious reasoning.The word intuition comes from the Latin verb intueri translated as or from the late middle English word intuit, .