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perceiving

  1. present participle and gerund of perceive

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perceiving (plural perceivings)

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