apperception

[ap-er-sep-shuhn]

noun

Psychology.

1. conscious perception

2. the act or process of apperceiving.

apperception

/ ˌæpəˈsɛpʃən /

noun

1. the attainment of full awareness of a sensation or idea

2. the act or process of apperceiving

Other Word Forms

• apperceptive adjective
• apperceptively adverb
• preapperception noun
• unapperceptive adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of apperception¹

First recorded in 1745–55; from French or directly from New Latin (Leibnitz) apperceptiōn-, stem of apperceptiō. See ap- ¹, perception

Example Sentences

Burning or melting one’s own robot shell seems unproductive, but who are we to question the strategies of an android with a bulk apperception level of twenty?

From The New Yorker

With her bulk apperception still dialled up and her nihilism blossoming, Maeve indulges the urge to wreak havoc and get the hell out of Dodge.

From The New Yorker

This is a host with an “apperception” of 55.

From The Guardian

This feeling has been called by philosophers the apperception or consciousness of our own existence.

From Project Gutenberg

For our delicate machinery of apperception there is no longer right or wrong; vice and virtue are the acid and alkali of existence.

From Project Gutenberg

Related Words

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• mentality 
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• psyche 
• sense 
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• thought 
• wisdom