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Perception vs Familiarity - What's the difference?

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Perception is a related term of familiarity.


As nouns the difference between perception and familiarity

is that perception is organization, identification, and interpretation of sensory information while familiarity is the state of being extremely friendly; intimacy.

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)

    familiarity

    English

    Noun

    (familiarities)
  • The state of being extremely friendly; intimacy.
  • *, II.8:
  • It is also folly and injustice to deprive childrenof their fathers familiaritie , and ever to shew them a surly, austere, grim, and disdainefull countenance, hoping thereby to keepe them in awfull feare and duteous obedience.
  • Undue intimacy; inappropriate informality, impertinence.
  • * 1927 , G K Chesterton, The Return of Don Quixote , p.5:
  • Murrel did not in the least object to being called a monkey, yet he always felt a slight distaste when Julian Archer called him one.It had to do with a fine shade between familiarity and intimacy which men like Murrel are never ready to disregard, however ready they may be to black their faces.
  • An instance of familiar behaviour.
  • Close or habitual acquaintance with someone or something; understanding or recognition acquired from experience.
  • Derived terms

    * familiarity breeds contempt