Perception vs. Impression

Perceptionnoun

Organization, identification, and interpretation of sensory information.

Impressionnoun

The indentation or depression made by the pressure of one object on or into another.

‘His head made an impression on the pillow.’;

Perceptionnoun

Conscious understanding of something.

Impressionnoun

The overall effect of something, e.g., on a person.

‘What is your impression of Beatles' music?’;

Perceptionnoun

Vision (ability)

Impressionnoun

A vague recalling of an event, a belief.

‘I have the impression that he's already left for Paris.’;

Perceptionnoun

Acuity

Impressionnoun

An impersonation, an imitation of the mannerisms of another individual.

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.

Impressionnoun

An outward appearance.

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.

Impressionnoun

(advertising) An online advertising performance metric representing an instance where an ad. is shown once.

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.’;

Impressionnoun

(painting) The first coat of colour, such as the priming in house-painting etc.

Perceptionnoun

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

‘This experiment discovereth perception in plants.’;

Impressionnoun

(engraving) A print on paper from a wood block, metal plate, etc.

Perceptionnoun

An idea; a notion.

Impressionnoun

(philosophy) The vivid perception of something as it is experienced, in contrast to ideas or thoughts drawn from memory or the imagination.

Perceptionnoun

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

Impressionnoun

The act of impressing, or the state of being impressed; the communication of a stamp, mold, style, or character, by external force or by influence.

Perceptionnoun

a way of conceiving something;

‘Luther had a new perception of the Bible’;

Impressionnoun

That which is impressed; stamp; mark; indentation; sensible result of an influence exerted from without.

‘The stamp and clear impression of good sense.’; ‘To shelter us from impressions of weather, we must spin, we must weave, we must build.’;

Perceptionnoun

the process of perceiving

Impressionnoun

That which impresses, or exercises an effect, action, or agency; appearance; phenomenon.

‘Portentous blaze of comets and impressions in the air.’; ‘A fiery impression falling from out of Heaven.’;

Perceptionnoun

knowledge gained by perceiving;

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

Impressionnoun

Influence or effect on the senses or the intellect hence, interest, concern.

‘His words impression left.’; ‘Such terrible impression made the dream.’; ‘I have a father's dear impression,And wish, before I fall into my grave,That I might see her married.’;

Perceptionnoun

becoming aware of something via the senses

Impressionnoun

An indistinct notion, remembrance, or belief.

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.

Impressionnoun

Impressiveness; emphasis of delivery.

‘Which must be read with an impression.’;

Impressionnoun

The pressure of the type on the paper, or the result of such pressure, as regards its appearance; as, a heavy impression; a clear, or a poor, impression; also, a single copy as the result of printing, or the whole edition printed at a given time; as, a copy from the fifth impression.

‘Ten impressions which his books have had.’;

Impressionnoun

In painting, the first coat of color, as the priming in house painting and the like.

Impressionnoun

A print on paper from a wood block, metal plate, or the like.

Impressionnoun

a vague idea in which some confidence is placed;

‘his impression of her was favorable’; ‘what are your feelings about the crisis?’; ‘it strengthened my belief in his sincerity’; ‘I had a feeling that she was lying’;

Impressionnoun

an outward appearance;

‘he made a good impression’; ‘I wanted to create an impression of success’; ‘she retained that bold effect in her reproductions of the original painting’;

Impressionnoun

a clear and telling mental image;

‘he described his mental picture of his assailant’; ‘he had no clear picture of himself or his world’; ‘the events left a permanent impression in his mind’;

Impressionnoun

a concavity in a surface produced by pressing;

‘he left the impression of his fingers in the soft mud’;

Impressionnoun

a symbol that is the result of printing;

‘he put his stamp on the envelope’;

Impressionnoun

all the copies of a work printed at one time;

‘they ran off an initial printing of 2000 copies’;

Impressionnoun

(dentistry) an imprint of the teeth and gums in wax or plaster;

‘the dentist took an impression for use in preparing an inlay’;

Impressionnoun

an impressionistic portrayal of a person;

‘he did a funny impression of a politician’;

Impressionnoun

the act of pressing one thing on or into the surface of another;

‘he watched the impression of the seal on the hot wax’;

Impressionnoun

an idea, feeling, or opinion about something or someone, especially one formed without conscious thought or on the basis of little evidence

‘his first impressions of Manchester were very positive’; ‘I got the impression that he was sorely disappointed’;

Impressionnoun

an effect produced on someone

‘her courtesy had made a good impression’;

Impressionnoun

a difference made by the action or presence of someone or something

‘the floor was too dirty for the mop to make much impression’;

Impressionnoun

an imitation of a person or thing, done to entertain

‘he did an impression of Shirley Bassey’;

Impressionnoun

a graphic or pictorial representation of someone or something

‘police issued an artist's impression of the attacker’;

Impressionnoun

a mark impressed on a surface

‘the impression of his body on the leaves’;

Impressionnoun

a negative copy of the teeth or mouth made by pressing them into a soft substance.

Impressionnoun

the printing of a number of copies of a book, periodical, or picture for issue at one time.

Impressionnoun

a particular printed version of a book, especially one reprinted from existing type, plates, or film with no or only minor alteration

‘a copy of the first impression’;

Impressionnoun

a print taken from an engraving.

Impressionnoun

an instance of a pop-up or other online advertisement being seen on an Internet user's monitor.