perceptual

[ per-sep-choo-uhl ]

adjective

1. of, relating to, or involving perception.

Other Words From

• per·ceptu·al·ly adverb
• inter·per·ceptu·al adjective
• inter·per·ceptu·al·ly adverb
• nonper·ceptu·al adjective
• unper·ceptu·al adjective
• unper·ceptu·al·ly adverb

Word History and Origins

Origin of perceptual¹

1875–80; percept + -ual, on the model of concept, conceptual

Example Sentences

Orienting is one’s ability to select some perceptual information over others based on what’s important.

From Nautilus

This could account for the vivid perceptual experiences they cause.

From Nautilus

Scientists at Johns Hopkins University have brought mime into the laboratory for a series of experiments exploring how the human brain fills in perceptual gaps.

From Ars Technica

Your mood gets better, your creativity, your perceptual processing, your memory processing.

From Washington Post

It offers a different kind of perceptual shift, showing what the phases of the moon would look like to someone standing above the far side—the side that people commonly describe as “dark.”

From Nautilus

Instead, it turned out to be richly perceptual and affective.

From The Daily Beast

Those are the two poles in Judd interpretation: Judd as a radical conceptualist, and Judd as a maker of perceptual abstractions.

From The Daily Beast

Voit documents a perceptual anomaly and allows it to trick us—or not—without any representational manipulation.

From The Daily Beast

Language makes it possible for us to profit through the perceptual experience of others.

From Project Gutenberg

The ideal has no perceptual value; it has no status in the world of the senses.

From Project Gutenberg

So-called correct perception is connected with a long-continued process of perceptual education motived and initiated from within.

From Project Gutenberg

As contrasted with the ideational, the perceptual consciousness is concerned with practice.

From Project Gutenberg

But we may drop the term ‘apparent’; for there is but one nature, namely the nature which is before us in perceptual knowledge.

From Project Gutenberg