apperceive
verbEtymology From Middle English aperceiven, from Old French aperceveir, apercevoir, from Late Latin *appercipiō, from ad- + percipiō.
1
Obsolete To perceive.
2
Human sciences, Psychology, Sciences To be aware of perceiving; to understand a perception by linking it mentally with a mass of existing ideas of the same object.
- Derived terms
- apperceiving mass, unapperceived
- Related terms
- apperception