perceiving

Etymology

verb

  1. present participle and gerund of perceive

noun

  1. The act by which something is perceived.
    To such perceivings we give names like these: seeings, hearings, smellings, chillings and burnings, pleasures and pains, desires […] 2004, Timothy D. J. Chappell, Reading Plato's Theaetetus, page 73

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