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Apperceive

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

v. To perceive (something) while being conscious of perceiving.

v. To perceive (something) in terms of past experience.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

v. To perceive.

v. To be aware of perceiving; to understand a perception by linking it mentally with a mass of existing ideas of the same object.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

v. To perceive; to comprehend.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

To be conscious of perceiving; comprehend (what is perceived); loosely, to perceive; notice: used specifically of internal perception or self-consciousness. See apperception.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

v. perceive in terms of a past experience

Word Usage

"Since to apperceive is to bring the results of earlier experience to bear actively upon the new impression, it must involve a reactive, or attentive, state of consciousness; for, as noted in our study of the learning process, it is only by selecting elements out of former experience that the new impression is given definite meaning in consciousness."

Verb Form

apperceived apperceiving

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

perceive comprehend

Form

apperceiving mass

Synonym

Words with the same meaning