perception

English

Etymology

From Middle English percepcioun, from Middle French percepcion, from Latin perceptiō (“a receiving or collecting, perception, comprehension”), from perceptus (“perceived, observed”), perfect passive participle of percipiō (“to perceive, observe”); see perceive.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /pəˈsɛpʃn̩/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /pɚˈsɛpʃ(ə)n/

• Audio (General American):

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• Rhymes: -ɛpʃən
• Hyphenation: per‧cept‧ion

Noun

perception (countable and uncountable, plural perceptions)

1. The organisation, identification and interpretation of sensory information.
2. Conscious understanding of something.

   have perception of time

3. Vision (ability) (Can we verify⁽⁺⁾ this sense?)
4. Acuity

Synonyms

• ken

Derived terms

• afterperception
• anorthoscopic perception
• chemoperception
• chronoception
• depth perception
• disperception
• doors of perception
• extrasensory perception
• graviperception
• heteroperception
• imperception
• magnetoperception
• mechanoperception
• metaperception
• misperception
• nociperception
• nonperception
• non-referential perception
• osseoperception
• overperception
• perceptional
• perceptionism
• perceptionist
• petite perception
• photoperception
• preperception
• reperception
• self-perception
• somatoperception
• space perception
• underperception
• visuoperception

Related terms

• perceive
• percept
• perceptual

Translations

the organisation, identification, and interpretation of sensory information

• Bengali: উপলব্ধি (bn) (upolobdhi)
• Bulgarian: възприя́тие (bg) n (vǎzprijátie)
• Finnish: havainto (fi), havaitseminen (fi)
• Hungarian: észlelés (hu)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: têgihîştin (ku) f

conscious understanding of something

• Afrikaans: persepsie, waarneming (af)
• Arabic: اِدْرََاك حَسِّيّ m (idraāk ḥassiyy)
• Azerbaijani: qavrayış
• Bengali: উপলব্ধি (bn) (upolobdhi), অনুধাবন (bn) (onudhabon)
• Bulgarian: схващане (bg) n (shvaštane), разбиране (bg) n (razbirane)
• Catalan: percepció (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 知覺 / 知觉 (zh) (zhījué), 感知 (zh) (gǎnzhī)

• Czech: vnímání (cs) n
• Danish: opfattelse c
• Dutch: perceptie (nl) f, gewaarwording (nl) f, waarneming (nl) f
• Finnish: havainnointi (fi), havaintokyky, -tunne
• French: perception (fr) f
• Galician: percepción (gl) f
• Georgian: აღქმა (aɣkma), შეცნობა (šecnoba), შემეცნება (šemecneba)
• German: Wahrnehmung (de) f
• Greek: αντίληψη (el) f (antílipsi)
• Hungarian: felfogás (hu), megértés (hu)
• Irish: braistint f
• Italian: percezione (it) f
• Japanese: 知覚 (ja) (ちかく, chikaku)
• Latvian: uztvere (lv) f
• Maltese: perċezzjoni f
• Polish: percepcja (pl), postrzeganie (pl), spostrzeganie
• Portuguese: percepção (pt) f (Brazil), perceção f (Portugal)
• Romanian: percepție (ro), percepere (ro), discernere (ro), discernământ (ro)
• Russian: восприя́тие (ru) n (vosprijátije), перце́пция (ru) f (percépcija)
• Scottish Gaelic: toirt fa-near f
• Serbo-Croatian: percèpcija (sh) f, predodžba (sh) f
• Slovak: vnímanie n
• Spanish: percepción (es) f
• Swedish: uppfattning (sv) c, förnimmelse (sv) c
• Tagalog: watas
• Thai: การรับรู้ (th) (gaan-ráp-rúu)
• Turkish:

  Ottoman Turkish: ادراك (idrak)

• Ukrainian: сприйняття́ n (spryjnjattjá), перце́пція f (percépcija)
• Urdu: حسی ادراک m
• Vietnamese: tri giác (vi)

vision (ability)

• Bulgarian: зрение (bg) n (zrenie)
• Catalan: percepció (ca) f
• Dutch: zicht (nl) n, waarneming (nl) f
• Finnish: näkökyky (fi), näkö (fi), näköaisti (fi)
• French: perception (fr) f
• Greek: όραση (el) f (órasi)
• Hungarian: látás (hu)
• Portuguese: percepção (pt) f (Brazil), perceção f (Portugal)
• Romanian: percepție (ro)
• Scottish Gaelic: toirt fa-near f
• Serbo-Croatian: percèpcija (sh) f, vȋd (sh) m

acuity — see acuity

that which is detected by the five senses

• Bulgarian: възприятие (bg) n (vǎzprijatie)
• Catalan: percepció (ca) f
• Czech: vjem (cs) m
• Finnish: aistimus (fi), havainto (fi)
• French: perception (fr) f
• Georgian: აღქმა (aɣkma)
• Greek: αντίληψη (el) f (antílipsi), διορατικότητα (el) f (dioratikótita), αίσθηση (el) f (aísthisi)

  Ancient Greek: αἴσθησις f (aísthēsis)

• Hebrew: תפיסה (tfissa), קליטה (klita)
• Hungarian: érzékelés (hu), (including those detected within consciousness as a thought, intuition, deduction, etc.) észlelés (hu)
• Italian: percezione (it) f, sentore (it) m
• Portuguese: percepção (pt) f (Brazil), perceção f (Portugal)
• Romanian: percepție (ro)
• Russian: восприя́тие (ru) n (vosprijátije), реце́пция (ru) (recépcija)
• Scottish Gaelic: toirt fa-near f
• Serbo-Croatian: percèpcija (sh) f
• Slovak: vnem m
• Spanish: percepción (es)
• Ukrainian: сприйняття́ n (spryjnjattjá), чуття́ n (čuttjá)
• Urdu: حواس خمسہ کا ادراک

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Afrikaans: ^{(please verify)} persepsie f
• Esperanto: ^{(please verify)} percepto
• Spanish: ^{(please verify)} percepción (es) f

Further reading

• “perception”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “perception”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

Anagrams

• preception

French

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin perceptiō.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pɛʁ.sɛp.sjɔ̃/

• Audio (Switzerland (Valais)):

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• Audio (France (Vosges)):

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• Audio (France (Lyon)):

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Noun

perception f (plural perceptions)

1. perception
2. collection (of taxes, fares, etc.)

   la perception des impôts ― tax collection

Derived terms

• petite perception (philosophy)

Related terms

• percevoir

Descendants

• → Romanian: percepție

Further reading

• “perception”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012