VISUAL PERCEPTION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does visual perception mean? 

• VISUAL PERCEPTION (noun)
  The noun VISUAL PERCEPTION has 1 sense:

1. perception by means of the eyes

  Familiarity information: VISUAL PERCEPTION used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• VISUAL PERCEPTION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Perception by means of the eyes

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

beholding; seeing; visual perception

Hypernyms ("visual perception" is a kind of...):

perception (the process of perceiving)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "visual perception"):

contrast (the perceptual effect of the juxtaposition of very different colors)

face recognition (the visual perception of familiar faces)

object recognition (the visual perception of familiar objects)

visual space (the visual perception of space)

fusion; optical fusion (the combining of images from the two eyes to form a single visual percept)

 Context examples 

A disorder characterized by visual perception of unclear or fuzzy images.

(Blurred Vision, NCI Thesaurus/CTCAE)