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Perception vs Alertness - What's the difference?

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Perception is a related term of alertness.


As nouns the difference between perception and alertness

is that perception is organization, identification, and interpretation of sensory information while alertness is the quality of being alert or on the alert; briskness; nimbleness; activity.

perception

English

(wikipedia perception)

Noun

(en noun)
  • 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.

    • Synonyms

    * (l)

    Related terms

    * perceive * percept * perceptual

    External links

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    alertness

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • The quality of being alert or on the alert; briskness; nimbleness; activity.