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Perceiving vs Appearing - What's the difference?

perceiving | appearing |

As verbs the difference between perceiving and appearing

is that perceiving is while appearing is .

As nouns the difference between perceiving and appearing

is that perceiving is the act by which something is perceived while appearing is appearance; act of coming into view.

perceiving

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • 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

    appearing

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • appearance; act of coming into view
  • * 1866', Caleb Webb, Discourses on 'the Lord's prayer (page 120)
    • Sudden and extensive disappearings and fresh appearings would startle and confound us, and if continued, would shatter our sense of personality out of us.