Experience vs. Perception

Experiencenoun

Event(s) of which one is cognizant.

‘It was an experience he would not soon forget.’;

Perceptionnoun

Organization, identification, and interpretation of sensory information.

Experiencenoun

(countable) An activity one has performed.

Perceptionnoun

Conscious understanding of something.

Experiencenoun

(countable) A collection of events and/or activities from which an individual or group may gather knowledge, opinions, and skills.

Perceptionnoun

Vision (ability)

Experiencenoun

(uncountable) The knowledge thus gathered.

Perceptionnoun

Acuity

Experienceverb

(transitive) To observe certain events; undergo a certain feeling or process; or perform certain actions that may alter one or contribute to one's knowledge, opinions, or skills.

Perceptionnoun

(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.

Experiencenoun

Trial, as a test or experiment.

‘She caused him to make experienceUpon wild beasts.’;

Perceptionnoun

The act of perceiving; cognizance by the senses or intellect; apperhension by the bodily organs, or by the mind, of what is presented to them; discernment; apperhension; cognition.

Experiencenoun

The effect upon the judgment or feelings produced by any event, whether witnessed or participated in; personal and direct impressions as contrasted with description or fancies; personal acquaintance; actual enjoyment or suffering.

‘I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience.’; ‘To most men experience is like the stern lights of a ship, which illumine only the track it has passed.’; ‘When the consuls . . . came in . . . they knew soon by experience how slenderly guarded against danger the majesty of rulers is where force is wanting.’; ‘Those that undertook the religion of our Savior upon his preaching, had no experience of it.’;

Perceptionnoun

The faculty of perceiving; the faculty, or peculiar part, of man's constitution by which he has knowledge through the medium or instrumentality of the bodily organs; the act of apperhending material objects or qualities through the senses; - distinguished from conception.

‘Matter hath no life nor perception, and is not conscious of its own existence.’;

Experiencenoun

An act of knowledge, one or more, by which single facts or general truths are ascertained; experimental or inductive knowledge; hence, implying skill, facility, or practical wisdom gained by personal knowledge, feeling or action; as, a king without experience of war.

‘Whence hath the mind all the materials of reason and knowledge? To this I answer in one word, from experience.’; ‘Experience may be acquired in two ways; either, first by noticing facts without any attempt to influence the frequency of their occurrence or to vary the circumstances under which they occur; this is observation; or, secondly, by putting in action causes or agents over which we have control, and purposely varying their combinations, and noticing what effects take place; this is experiment.’;

Perceptionnoun

The quality, state, or capability, of being affected by something external; sensation; sensibility.

‘This experiment discovereth perception in plants.’;

Experienceverb

To make practical acquaintance with; to try personally; to prove by use or trial; to have trial of; to have the lot or fortune of; to have befall one; to be affected by; to feel; as, to experience pain or pleasure; to experience poverty; to experience a change of views.

‘The partial failure and disappointment which he had experienced in India.’;

Perceptionnoun

An idea; a notion.

Experienceverb

To exercise; to train by practice.

‘The youthful sailors thus with early careTheir arms experience, and for sea prepare.’;

Perceptionnoun

the representation of what is perceived; basic component in the formation of a concept

Experiencenoun

the accumulation of knowledge or skill that results from direct participation in events or activities;

‘a man of experience’; ‘experience is the best teacher’;

Perceptionnoun

a way of conceiving something;

‘Luther had a new perception of the Bible’;

Experiencenoun

the content of direct observation or participation in an event;

‘he had a religious experience’; ‘he recalled the experience vividly’;

Perceptionnoun

the process of perceiving

Experiencenoun

an event as apprehended;

‘a surprising experience’; ‘that painful experience certainly got our attention’;

Perceptionnoun

knowledge gained by perceiving;

‘a man admired for the depth of his perception’;

Experienceverb

go or live through;

‘We had many trials to go through’; ‘he saw action in Viet Nam’;

Perceptionnoun

becoming aware of something via the senses

Experienceverb

have firsthand knowledge of states, situations, emotions, or sensations;

‘I know the feeling!’; ‘have you ever known hunger?’; ‘I have lived a kind of hell when I was a drug addict’; ‘The holocaust survivors have lived a nightmare’; ‘I lived through two divorces’;

Perception

Perception (from the Latin perceptio, meaning gathering or receiving) is the organization, identification, and interpretation of sensory information in order to represent and understand the presented information or environment.All perception involves signals that go through the nervous system, which in turn result from physical or chemical stimulation of the sensory system. For example, vision involves light striking the retina of the eye; smell is mediated by odor molecules; and hearing involves pressure waves.

Experienceverb

of mental or physical states or experiences;

‘get an idea’; ‘experience vertigo’; ‘get nauseous’; ‘undergo a strange sensation’; ‘The chemical undergoes a sudden change’; ‘The fluid undergoes shear’; ‘receive injuries’; ‘have a feeling’;

Experienceverb

undergo an emotional sensation;

‘She felt resentful’; ‘He felt regret’;

Experienceverb

undergo;

‘The stocks had a fast run-up’;

Experience

Experience is the process through which conscious organisms perceive the world around them. Experiences can be accompanied by active awareness on the part of the person having the experience, although they need not be.