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perception
perception is a 10-letter English word with 9 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: 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. Face value is 16 in Scrabble and 20 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
10 letters · Scrabble 16 · Words With Friends 20 · 9 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
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.
- 2noun
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.
- 3noun
The quality, state, or capability, of being affected by something external; sensation; sensibility.
- 4noun
An idea; a notion.
- 5noun
becoming aware of something via the senses
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- 6noun
the process of perceiving
- 7noun
knowledge gained by perceiving
"a man admired for the depth of his perception"
- 8noun
a way of conceiving something
"Luther had a new perception of the Bible"
- 9noun
the representation of what is perceived; basic component in the formation of a concept
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