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Perception vs Perspection - What's the difference?

perception | perspection |

As nouns the difference between perception and perspection

is that perception is organization, identification, and interpretation of sensory information while perspection is {{cx|rare|lang=en}} perspective.

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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    perspection

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • perspective
  • * 1931 , American Journal of Mathematics (page 340)
    • Now this set of twelve triangles has the following remarkable property — any two triangles in the same row are six-fold perspective; any two triangles in the same column are four-fold perspective with three centers of perspection on a line
  • * 1962 , Roy Martin Winger, An introduction to projective geometry (page 104)
    • Select pairs of triangles perspective from each point and such that the axes of perspection will be the lines of the figure. Show that the configuration can be regarded as made up of a complete 4-point and a complete 4-line.
  • perspicuity
  • * 1790 , The Gentleman's Magazine (volume 68, page 671)
    • he never spent his ammunition in useless parade, but tried on the proper moment, with the keenest perspection , to make his attack with success, which ever crowned his endeavours.