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Perception vs Perceptible - What's the difference?

perception | perceptible |

As nouns the difference between perception and perceptible

is that perception is organization, identification, and interpretation of sensory information while perceptible is anything that can be perceived.

As an adjective perceptible is

able to be perceived, sensed, or discerned.

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

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    perceptible

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Able to be perceived, sensed, or discerned.
  • *
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    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Anything that can be perceived.
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