perception vs somesthesia

somesthesia vs perception

perception and somesthesia both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
perception	Yes	No	No	No
somesthesia	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, somesthesia is a hyponym of perception; that is, somesthesia is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than perception:

perception: the process of perceiving
somesthesia: the perception of tactual or proprioceptive or gut sensations

Other hyponyms of perception include constancy, perceptual constancy, detection, sensing, beholding, seeing, visual perception, auditory perception, sound perception, aesthesis, esthesis, sensation, sense datum, sense experience, sense impression, somaesthesia, somatesthesia, somatic sensation, feeling, tactile sensation, tactual sensation, touch, touch sensation.

perception (noun)	somesthesia (noun)
becoming aware of something via the senses	the faculty of bodily perception; sensory systems associated with the body; includes skin senses and proprioception and the internal organs
the process of perceiving	the perception of tactual or proprioceptive or gut sensations
the representation of what is perceived; basic component in the formation of a concept
a way of conceiving something
knowledge gained by perceiving

Difference between perception and somesthesia

© WordCmp.com 2024, CC-BY 4.0 / CC-BY-SA 3.0.