apperception
noun
conscious perception
apperceptive
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a word derived from
apperception.
Example Sentences
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My apperceptive mass goes back 50 years when I was the bird-dog for Jack Kaplan, then worth over $100 million and denoted as a big boodle for a sole operator.
From Forbes ● Mar. 30, 2015
Hugh, the splendid young animal who was John Willet’s stable boy in Barnaby Rudge, was as deficient of most intellectual and spiritual apperceptive centres as poor Jo.
From Dickens As an Educator by James L. (James Laughlin) Hughes
The wide plain, the river hurrying between green banks—no apperceptive background fails thus far in the picture.
From Vocal Expression A Class-book of Voice Training and Interpretation by Katherine Jewell Everts
It is the synthetic, or apperceptive, activity of the mind that gives the “seven-league boots” to genius.
From The Measurement of Intelligence An Explanation of and a Complete Guide for the Use of the Stanford Revision and Extension of the Binet-Simon Intelligence Scale by Ellwood Patterson Cubberley
How life in any stage might be filled with richness and joy, if imaginations were stored with apperceptive elements and allowed to reconstruct the universe in our fancies!
From Dickens As an Educator by James L. (James Laughlin) Hughes
