Thesaurus: perception

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1. 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.
2. n. 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.
3. n. The quality, state, or capability, of being affected by something external; sensation; sensibility.
4. n. An idea; a notion.
5. n. the representation of what is perceived; basic component in the formation of a concept
6. n. a way of conceiving something
7. n. the process of perceiving
8. n. knowledge gained by perceiving
9. n. becoming aware of something via the senses
10. The faculty of perceiving; the faculty, or peculiar part, ofman's constitution by which he has knowledge through the medium orinstrumentality of the bodily organs; the act of apperhendingmaterial objects or qualities through the senses; -- distinguishedfrom conception. Sir W. Hamilton.Matter hath no life nor perception, and is not conscious of its ownexistence. Bentley.
11. n:100 n. a way of conceiving something n. the process of perceiving n. knowledge gained by perceiving