Perception

Noun

Singular: perception

Plural: perceptions

perception (plural perceptions)
1. Conscious understanding of something.
2. Vision (ability)
3. Acuity
4. (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.