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APPERCEIVE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does apperceive mean?
• APPERCEIVE (verb)
The verb APPERCEIVE has 1 sense:
1. perceive in terms of a past experience
Familiarity information: APPERCEIVE used as a verb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Perceive in terms of a past experience
Classified under:
Verbs of seeing, hearing, feeling
Hypernyms (to "apperceive" is one way to...):
comprehend; perceive (to become aware of through the senses)
Domain category:
psychological science; psychology (the science of mental life)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Derivation:
apperception (the process whereby perceived qualities of an object are related to past experience)
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