perceive
verb (used with object)
to become aware of, know, or identify by means of the senses.
unperceiving
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a word derived from
perceive.
Example Sentences
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The Boston Herald snarled at "the brazenly publicized doubts of New Jersey's unseeing, unperceiving Governor."
From Time Magazine Archive
They equally affirm that the so-called representative image is the sole reality, and discard as unthinkable the unperceiving material cause of the philosophers.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 6 "Cockaigne" to "Columbus, Christopher" by Various
Can you then conceive it possible that they should exist in an unperceiving thing?
From Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous by George Berkeley
But extension, figure, and motion are only ideas existing in the mind, and neither these ideas nor their archetypes can exist in an unperceiving substance.
From The World's Greatest Books — Volume 13 — Religion and Philosophy by Sir John Alexander Hammerton
“Rot!” he ejaculated, unperceiving the drift of her reflections.
From The Stronger Influence by F.E. Mills Young
