Savvy vs Perception - What's the difference?
savvy | perception |
(informal) Shrewd, well-informed and perceptive.
* 22 March 2012 , Scott Tobias, AV Club The Hunger Games [http://www.avclub.com/articles/the-hunger-games,71293/]
(informal) to understand
(informal) Do you understand?
Shrewdness
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 savvy and perception
is that savvy is shrewdness while perception is organization, identification, and interpretation of sensory information.As an adjective savvy
is (informal) shrewd, well-informed and perceptive.As a verb savvy
is (informal) to understand.As an interjection savvy
is (informal) do you understand?.savvy
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Adjective
(er)- That such a safe adaptation could come of The Hunger Games speaks more to the trilogy’s commercial ascent than the book’s actual content, which is audacious and savvy in its dark calculations.