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.

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

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

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

• ken

• perceive
• percept
• perceptual

• “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.

• preception

Learned borrowing from Latin perceptiō.

• IPA^(key): /pɛʁ.sɛp.sjɔ̃/

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perception f (plural perceptions)

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

   la perception des impôts ― tax collection

• petite perception (philosophy)

• percevoir

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