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Perception vs Misconception - What's the difference?

perception | misconception |

As nouns the difference between perception and misconception

is that perception is organization, identification, and interpretation of sensory information while misconception is a mistaken belief, a wrong idea.

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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    misconception

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • a mistaken belief, a wrong idea
    • There are several common misconceptions about the theory of relativity.
    You're obviously under the misconception that I care about your problems.
    He thought that a misconception meant becoming pregnant with a girl.