Synonyms for perception
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Noun
1. Knowledge — vision (ability)
knowledge, understanding, sensation, consciousness, sense, sight, impression, vision, taste, feeling, view, recognition, intuition, apprehension, insight, comprehension, seeing, discernment, cognizance, cognisance UK, tact, ken, inapprehension rare
Definitions
- n. 1
Vision (ability)
Related words
- Word family
- perceive percept
- Phrases
- extrasensory perception internal perception
Forms
- Plural
- perceptions → knowledges, understandings, sensations, consciousnesses…
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We speak of perception of external objects, apprehension of intellectual truth.
J. C. Fernald, English Synonyms and Antonyms (1914)
Example sentences
- knowledge Anna married without the knowledge of her parents.
- understanding The mystery of life is beyond human understanding.
- consciousness Before he died, he briefly regained consciousness.
- sensation The hair style of the Beatles created a sensation.
- sensing Sami and Layla were sensing their natural chemistry.
Popularity over time
| Word | 1850 → 2019 | Trend |
|---|---|---|
| perception | rising | |
| knowledge | rising | |
| understanding | rising | |
| consciousness | rising | |
| sensation | rising | |
| sensing | steady |
Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.
By length
- 3 letters
- ken1
- 4 letters
- view1, tact1
- 5 letters
- sense1, taste1, sight1
- 6 letters
- seeing2, vision2
- 7 letters
- feeling2, insight2, sensing2, percept2
- 9 letters
- knowledge2, sensation3, intuition4
- 10 letters
- impression3, cognizance3, cognisance
- 11 letters
- recognition4, discernment3
- 12 letters
- apprehension4
- 13 letters
- understanding4, consciousness3, comprehension4
- 14 letters
- inapprehension
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (seeing2 = 2 syllables).
In other languages
- Français
- perception
- Italiano
- percezione
- Deutsch
- Wahrnehmung