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Discrimination vs Percipience - What's the difference?

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Discrimination is a related term of percipience.


As nouns the difference between discrimination and percipience

is that discrimination is a distinction; discernment, the act of discriminating, discerning, distinguishing, noting or perceiving differences between things while percipience is perception.

discrimination

Noun

(en noun)
  • a distinction; discernment, the act of discriminating, discerning, distinguishing, noting or perceiving differences between things.
  • The state of being discriminated, distinguished from, or set apart.
  • (sometimes discrimination against ) distinct treatment of an individual or group to their disadvantage; treatment or consideration based on class or category rather than individual merit; partiality; prejudice; bigotry
  • sexual or racial discrimination
  • The quality of being discriminating, acute discernment, specifically in a learning situation; as to show great discrimination in the choice of means.
  • That which discriminates; mark of distinction, a characteristic.
  • Derived terms

    * nondiscrimination * reverse discrimination

    Hyponyms

    *heterosexism *ageism *ableism *xenophobia

    See also

    * stereotype * bias * racism ----

    percipience

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • perception
  • The state or condition of being highly perceptive, as if in an almost hypnotic or telepathic state.
  • 1891' ''She lay in a state of '''percipience without volition, and the rustle of the straw and the cutting of the ears by the others had the weight of bodily touches.'' — Thomas Hardy, '' Tess of the d'Urbervilles.

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