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Perception vs Preception - What's the difference?

perception | preception |

As nouns the difference between preception and perception

is that preception is a precept while perception is organization, identification, and interpretation of sensory information.

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)

    preception

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A precept.
  • (Bishop Hall)
    (Webster 1913)