Observant vs Perception - What's the difference?
observant | perception |
Alert and paying close attention; watchful.
Diligently attentive in observing a law, custom, duty or principle; regardful; mindful.
* Sir K. Digby
Organization, identification, and interpretation of sensory information.
Conscious understanding of something.
Vision (ability )
Acuity
(cognition ) That which is detected by the five senses; not necessarily understood (imagine looking through fog, trying to understand if you see a small dog or a cat); also that which is detected within consciousness as a thought, intuition, deduction, etc.
As nouns the difference between observant and perception
is that observant is a member of a franciscan order that strictly observes the rules of st francis while perception is organization, identification, and interpretation of sensory information.observant
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- The observant police officer noticed that my tax disk was out-of-date.
- I was normally observant of the local parking restrictions.
- We are told how observant Alexander was of his master Aristotle.