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Perception vs Attentive - What's the difference?

perception | attentive |

As a noun perception

is organization, identification, and interpretation of sensory information.

As an adjective attentive is

paying attention; noticing, watching, listening, or attending closely.

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)

    attentive

    English

    Etymology

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    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • paying attention; noticing, watching, listening, or attending closely
  • She is an attentive listener, but does not like to talk much.

    Synonyms

    * reckful

    Antonyms

    * inattentive, reckless

    See also

    * alert * wary * watchful

    Anagrams

    * tentative ----