perception

  1. Noun.  Conscious understanding of something.
  2. Noun.  Vision (''ability'').
  3. Noun.  Acuity.
  4. Noun.  (''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.

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