perceptions
- 1Plural of perception.
The survey revealed sharp differences in public perceptions of the new policy.
Childhood experiences shape our perceptions of risk and safety.
Note
A plural that belongs mostly to one side of the noun. Perception names both a faculty (sorting sensory information, vision, acuity) and the particular understandings that faculty produces. In the plural it leans toward the second: perceptions are views someone holds. It pairs naturally with of (perceptions of risk) and with a holder (public perceptions, our perceptions). For the faculty itself, the singular is usual: human perception.
perceptions is a form of perception
perception, noun: Conscious understanding of something. Full entry
- Forms
- perceptionperceptions plural
- Spelling
- perception → perceptions: add -s
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