Overhear vs Perceive - What's the difference?
overhear | perceive |
To hear something that wasn't meant for one's ears.
To see, to be aware of, to understand.
* {{quote-magazine, year=2012, month=March-April
, author=Colin Allen
, title=Do I See What You See?
, volume=100, issue=2, page=168
, magazine=(American Scientist)
As verbs the difference between overhear and perceive
is that overhear is to hear something that wasn't meant for one's ears while perceive is to see, to be aware of, to understand.overhear
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* overhearerperceive
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* (obsolete)Verb
citation, passage=Numerous experimental tests and other observations have been offered in favor of animal mind reading, and although many scientists are skeptical, others assert that humans are not the only species capable of representing what others do and don’t perceive and know.}}