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Perception vs Sighting - What's the difference?

perception | sighting |

As nouns the difference between perception and sighting

is that perception is organization, identification, and interpretation of sensory information while sighting is the act of catching sight of something, especially something searched for.

As a verb sighting is

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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

    External links

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    sighting

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of catching sight of something, especially something searched for
    • There will be a small prize for the first sighting of a seal

    Verb

    (head)