— perceptional , adj.
/peuhr sep"sheuhn/ , n.
1. the act or faculty of apprehending by means of the senses or of the mind; cognition; understanding.
2. immediate or intuitive recognition or appreciation, as of moral, psychological, or aesthetic qualities; insight; intuition; discernment: an artist of rare perception.
3. the result or product of perceiving, as distinguished from the act of perceiving; percept.
4. Psychol. a single unified awareness derived from sensory processes while a stimulus is present.
5. Law. the taking into possession of rents, crops, profits, etc.
[ 1350-1400; ME percepcioun ( percepcïon ) perception- (s. of perceptio ) comprehension, lit., a taking in. See PERCEPT, -ION ]
Syn. 1. awareness, sense, recognition.