Reception vs Perception - What's the difference?
reception | perception |
The act of receiving.
(uncountable, electronics) The act or ability to receive radio or similar signals.
A social engagement, usually to formally welcome someone.
A reaction.
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The desk of a hotel or office where guests are received.
(UK, education) The school year, or part thereof, between preschool and Year 1, when children are introduced to formal education.
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.
As nouns the difference between reception and perception
is that reception is the act of receiving while perception is organization, identification, and interpretation of sensory information.reception
English
Noun
- We have poor TV reception in the valley.
- The new system provides exceptional quality of the reception signal.
- After the wedding we proceeded to the reception .
- The ambassador's jokes met a cold reception .
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