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per·cep·tion

perception

 
 
pronunciation:
pr sep shn
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part of speech: noun
definition 1: that which is received through the senses.
synonyms:
cognizance, impression, percept, phenomenon, sensation
similar words:
sense
definition 2: the ability to perceive or know through the senses.
similar words:
apprehension, cognition, comprehension, consciousness, faculty, hearing, sensation, sense, sensibility, sight, smell, vision
definition 3: understanding that is intuitive; insight.
synonyms:
apprehension, feeling, insight, instinct, intuition
similar words:
clairvoyance, discernment, epiphany, grasp, sense, understanding, view
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adjective + (n.)perception accurate, changing, cognitive, collective, conscious, differing, external, extrasensory, gifted, inaccurate, negative, overall, parental, positive, procedural, public, relative, sensory, shared, subjective, visual, widespread  [See all][See only the most frequent]
verb + (n.)perception affect, alter, assess, associate, base, change, color, contribute, differ, distort, elicit, enhance, examine, explore, influence, investigate, measure, reflect, reinforce, relate, shape  [See all][See only the most frequent]
noun + (n.)perception Help ability, accuracy, adolescent, athlete, attitude, awareness, barrier, behavior, belief, bias, climate, cognition, competence, competency, coping, corruption, counselor, depth, difference, educator, effectiveness, expectation, faculty, fairness, gap, gender, imagination, importance, individual, influence, insight, judgment, mode, motivation, norm, orientation, participant, peer, principal, public, questionnaire, respondent, satisfaction, self, shift, stress, student, teacher, threat  [See all][See only the most frequent]
derivation: perceptional (adj.)
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