Antonyms for apperceive


Grammar : Verb
Spell : ap-er-seev
Phonetic Transcription : ˌæp ərˈsiv


Definition of apperceive

Origin :
  • c.1300, from Old French apercevoir (see apperception). In modern psychological use, a back-formation from apperception. Related: Apperceived; apperceiving.
  • As in know : verb understand information
  • As in perceive : verb notice, see
  • As in sense : verb become aware of
  • As in feel : verb touch, stroke
  • As in hear : verb become aware of information
Example sentences :
  • Spirits say they know such by their coldness, and that when they apperceive the cold they depart from them.
  • Extract from : « Earths In Our Solar System Which Are Called Planets, and Earths In The Starry Heaven Their Inhabitants, And The Spirits And Angels There » by Emanuel Swedenborg
  • From my perception, then, of hoof or sound I apperceive cow.
  • Extract from : « Applied Psychology for Nurses » by Mary F. Porter
  • On the contrary, they apperceive every experience and assign it to its place.
  • Extract from : « The Meaning of Truth » by William James
  • The housewife may apperceive old rags as something to be thrown away; a ragpicker, as something to be gathered up.
  • Extract from : « The Psychology of Salesmanship » by William Walker Atkinson
  • Then the queen departed into her chamber so that no man should apperceive her great sorrows.
  • Extract from : « Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series) » by Jean Froissart, Thomas Malory, Raphael Holinshed
  • It was given me also to apperceive the character of their internal respiration.
  • Extract from : « Earths In Our Solar System Which Are Called Planets, and Earths In The Starry Heaven Their Inhabitants, And The Spirits And Angels There » by Emanuel Swedenborg
  • In this manner we accept the forms imposed upon us by utility, and train ourselves to apperceive their potential beauty.
  • Extract from : « The Sense of Beauty » by George Santayana

Synonyms for apperceive

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