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n. The process, act, or faculty of perceiving.

n. The effect or product of perceiving.

n. Psychology Recognition and interpretation of sensory stimuli based chiefly on memory.

n. Psychology The neurological processes by which such recognition and interpretation are effected.

n. Insight, intuition, or knowledge gained by perceiving.

n. The capacity for such insight.

n. Conscious understanding of something.

n. Vision (ability)

n. Acuity

n. 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.

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.

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.

n. The quality, state, or capability, of being affected by something external; sensation; sensibility.

n. An idea; a notion.

n. Originally, and most commonly down to the middle of the eighteenth century, cognition; thought and sense in general, whether the faculty, the operation, or the resulting idea.

n. The mental faculty, operation, or resulting construction of the imagination, of gaining knowledge by virtue of a real action of an object upon the mind.

n. An immediate judgment founded on sense or other real action of the object upon the mind, more or less analogous to what takes place in vision.

n. In law, participation in receipts; community of interest in income: as, the perception of profits.

n. knowledge gained by perceiving

n. a way of conceiving something

n. becoming aware of something via the senses

n. the representation of what is perceived; basic component in the formation of a concept

n. the process of perceiving

"Let's keep things to reality, and CNN's supposition for why this drop in perception is certainly not reality."

conceptualisation    conceptuality    conceptualization   

external perception    facial perception    little perception    judgment of perception   

percept    perceive    perceptual   

discernment    apperhension    cognition    sensation    sensibility    idea    notion   

conception    contraception    deception    exception    inception    interception    misconception    misperception    preconception    reception   

understanding    consciousness    conception    awareness    intelligence    appreciation    sense    intuition    observation    comprehension