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Perception vs Proficiency - What's the difference?

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Perception is a related term of proficiency.


As nouns the difference between perception and proficiency

is that perception is organization, identification, and interpretation of sensory information while proficiency is ability, skill, competence.

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)

    proficiency

    English

    Noun

    (proficiencies)
  • Ability, skill, competence.
  • a test of proficiency in English
    to attain (or to reach) proficiency
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    Synonyms

    * ability * command * competence * skill * See also