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Perception vs Perceived - What's the difference?

perception | perceived |

As a noun perception

is organization, identification, and interpretation of sensory information.

As an adjective perceived is

generally recognized to be true.

As a verb perceived is

(perceive).

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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    perceived

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Generally recognized to be true.
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-07, author= Ed Pilkington
    • , volume=188, issue=26, page=6, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= ‘Killer robots’ should be banned in advance, UN told , passage=In his submission to the UN, [Christof] Heyns points to the experience of drones. Unmanned aerial vehicles were intended initially only for surveillance, and their use for offensive purposes was prohibited, yet once strategists realised their perceived advantages as a means of carrying out targeted killings, all objections were swept out of the way.}}
  • As seen or understood by an individual.

    • Derived terms

    * perceivedness

    Verb

    (head)
  • (perceive)
    • The alert officer perceived a dim shape in the distance.