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Perception vs Comprehension - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between perception and comprehension

is that perception is organization, identification, and interpretation of sensory information while comprehension is thorough understanding.

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)

    comprehension

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • thorough understanding
  • (logic) The totality of intensions, that is, attributes, characters, marks, properties, or qualities, that the object possesses, or else the totality of intensions that are pertinent to the context of a given discussion.
  • (computing) a compact syntax for generating a list in some functional programming languages
  • Synonyms

    * understanding