<p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>the act or faculty of perceiving, or apprehending by means of the senses or of the mind; cognition; understanding.</li><li>Synonyms: awareness, recognition, sense</li><li>immediate or intuitive recognition or appreciation, as of moral, psychological, or aesthetic qualities; insight; intuition; discernment: an artist of rare perception.</li><li>the result or product of perceiving, as distinguished from the act of perceiving; percept.</li><li>Psychology: a single unified awareness derived from sensory processes while a stimulus is present.</li><li>Law: the taking into possession of rents, crops, profits, etc.</li></ul>