Associations to the word «Apperceive»

Wiktionary

APPERCEIVE, verb. (obsolete) To perceive.
APPERCEIVE, verb. (psychology) To be aware of perceiving; to understand a perception by linking it mentally with a mass of existing ideas of the same object.

Dictionary definition

APPERCEIVE, verb. Perceive in terms of a past experience.

Wise words

Words to me were magic. You could say a word and it could conjure up all kinds of images or feelings or a chilly sensation or whatever. It was amazing to me that words had this power.
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