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Perception vs Recollection - What's the difference?

perception | recollection |

As nouns the difference between perception and recollection

is that perception is organization, identification, and interpretation of sensory information while recollection is the act of recollecting, or recalling to the memory; the operation by which objects are recalled to the memory, or ideas revived in the mind; reminiscence; remembrance or recollection can be process of collecting again.

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)

    recollection

    English

    Etymology 1

    Via (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • The act of recollecting, or recalling to the memory; the operation by which objects are recalled to the memory, or ideas revived in the mind; reminiscence; remembrance.
  • The power of recalling ideas to the mind, or the period within which things can be recollected; remembrance
  • ''Alas that distant event isn't within my recollection anymore.
  • That which is recollected; something called to mind; a reminiscence.
  • ''One of his earliest recollections ." - (Thomas Babington Macaulay).
  • (archaic) (also spelled re-collection) The act or practice of collecting or concentrating the mind; concentration; self-control.
  • ''From such an education Charles contracted habits of gravity and recollection .
    Synonyms
    * reminiscence * remembrance * memory.
    Derived terms
    * recollective

    Etymology 2

    Noun

  • Process of collecting again.
  • (Webster 1913)