perception vs sense

perception

noun
  • Conscious understanding of something. 

  • 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. 

  • Vision (ability) 

  • The organisation, identification and interpretation of sensory information. 

  • Acuity 

sense

noun
  • Perception through the intellect; apprehension; awareness. 

  • One of two opposite directions in which a vector (especially of motion) may point. See also polarity. 

  • A natural appreciation or ability. 

  • The way that a referent is presented. 

  • The meaning, reason, or value of something. 

  • A single conventional use of a word; one of the entries for a word in a dictionary. 

  • Sound practical or moral judgment. 

  • Any of the manners by which living beings perceive the physical world: for humans sight, smell, hearing, touch, taste. 

  • referring to the strand of a nucleic acid that directly specifies the product. 

  • One of two opposite directions of rotation, clockwise versus anti-clockwise. 

  • Any particular meaning of a word, among its various meanings. 

verb
  • To instinctively be aware. 

  • To comprehend. 

  • To use biological senses: to either see, hear, smell, taste, or feel. 

How often have the words perception and sense occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )