Associations to the word «Perception»

Wiktionary

PERCEPTION, noun. Organization, identification, and interpretation of sensory information.
PERCEPTION, noun. Conscious understanding of something.
PERCEPTION, noun. Vision (ability)
PERCEPTION, noun. Acuity
PERCEPTION, noun. (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.

Dictionary definition

PERCEPTION, noun. The representation of what is perceived; basic component in the formation of a concept.
PERCEPTION, noun. A way of conceiving something; "Luther had a new perception of the Bible".
PERCEPTION, noun. The process of perceiving.
PERCEPTION, noun. Knowledge gained by perceiving; "a man admired for the depth of his perception".
PERCEPTION, noun. Becoming aware of something via the senses.

Wise words

Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.
Paul Gauguin