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Perception vs Sensing - What's the difference?

perception | sensing |

As nouns the difference between perception and sensing

is that perception is organization, identification, and interpretation of sensory information while sensing is the act of sensation.

As a verb sensing is

present participle of lang=en.

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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    sensing

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of sensation.
  • * 1987 , Brian Patrick Hendley, Plato, Time, and Education
    • Second, the list of kinds of sensings that Socrates gave was thought to be an odd one. It included pleasures, pains, desires, and fears, as well as the more familiar examples of sight, hearing, smell, and the sensings of cold and of heat.

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