Meaning & use
Perceiving
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Becoming aware of or recognizing something through the senses or the mind.
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Perceiving the danger ahead, the driver slowed the car immediately.
She had a talent for perceiving subtle shifts in her colleagues' moods.
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"Perceive" derives from Latin percipere, meaning to seize or grasp thoroughly, reflecting how perception is an active grasping of information.
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