Perception vs. Reality

Perceptionnoun

Organization, identification, and interpretation of sensory information.

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Conscious understanding of something.

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Vision (ability)

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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

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a way of conceiving something;

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the process of perceiving

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knowledge gained by perceiving;

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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.

Realitynoun

The state of being actual or real.

Realitynoun

A real entity, event or other fact.

Realitynoun

The entirety of all that is real.

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An individual observer's own subjective perception of that which is real.

Realitynoun

(obsolete) Loyalty; devotion.

Realitynoun

Realty; real estate.

Realitynoun

The state or quality of being real; actual being or existence of anything, in distinction from mere appearance; fact.

Realitynoun

That which is real; an actual existence; that which is not imagination, fiction, or pretense; that which has objective existence, and is not merely an idea.

Realitynoun

Loyalty; devotion.

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See 2d Realty, 2.

Realitynoun

all of your experiences that determine how things appear to you;

Realitynoun

the state of being actual or real;

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the state of the world as it really is rather than as you might want it to be;

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the quality possessed by something that is real

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the state of things as they actually exist, as opposed to an idealistic or notional idea of them

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a thing that is actually experienced or seen, especially when this is unpleasant

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a thing that exists in fact, having previously only existed in one's mind

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the quality of being lifelike

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relating to reality TV

Realitynoun

the state or quality of having existence or substance

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existence that is absolute, self-sufficient, or objective, and not subject to human decisions or conventions.

Reality

Reality is the sum or aggregate of all that is real or existent within a system, as opposed to that which is only imaginary. The term is also used to refer to the ontological status of things, indicating their existence.