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Perceive vs Underperceive - What's the difference?

perceive | underperceive |

As verbs the difference between perceive and underperceive

is that perceive is to see, to be aware of, to understand while underperceive is to perceive to a lesser degree than actually exists.

perceive

English

Alternative forms

* (obsolete)

Verb

  • 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) 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.}}

    Synonyms

    * (l)

    References

    *

    underperceive

    English

    Verb

    (underperceiv)
  • To perceive to a lesser degree than actually exists.
  • * 2003 , W. James Potter, The 11 myths of media violence (page 211)
  • The problem with this belief is that the public does not "see" much of this violence, because it is not graphic enough to offend them, so the public is greatly underperceiving the amount of violence to which they are exposed.

    Antonyms

    * overperceive