See Also: mythico-(dictionary)

perception (iou) and mythico- (iou)


perception (iou)



perception noun. LME.
[Branch II from Old & mod. French from Latin perceptio(n-), from percept- pa. ppl stem of percipere PERCEIVE: see -ION. Branch I directly from Latin.]
I. Corresp. to PERCEIVE I.
The state of being or process of becoming aware or conscious of a thing, spec. through any of the senses. LME.
J. Locke Having Ideas and Perception being the same thing. A. Toffler Man's perception of time is closely linked with his internal rhythms.
b. The intuitive or direct recognition of a moral, aesthetic, or personal quality, e.g. the truth of a remark, the Beauty of an object; an instance of this. E19.
G. Vidal Someone had told him that, thought Caroline, delighted with her perception.
A result of perceiving; a mental image, a conception, (of a person or thing). L17.
A. France A perception of the analyst as cold..leads to minimal progress.
The faculty of perceiving; an ability to perceive. E18.
S. Hastings Her perceptions heightened by emotion, the capital..was..beautiful. A. Harding Her sharp perceptions might have detected my increasing intimacy with him.
Philosophy. The action of the mind by which it refers its sensations to an external object as their cause. M18.
Psychology. The neurophysiological processes, including memory, by which an organism becomes aware of and interprets external stimuli. L19.
II. Corresp. to PERCEIVE II.
The collection or receiving of rents etc. obsolete exc. Law. LME.
Christian Church. The receiving or partaking of the elements in the Eucharist. LME-L17.
perceptional adjective of, pertaining to, or of the Nature of, perception M19.

mythico- (iou)



mythico- combining form. M19.
[from MYTHIC + -O-.]
Forming adjectives with the sense 'mythical and ', as mythico-historical.