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Perceiving vs Perceived - What's the difference?

perceiving | perceived |

As verbs the difference between perceiving and perceived

is that perceiving is while perceived is (perceive).

As a noun perceiving

is the act by which something is perceived.

As an adjective perceived is

generally recognized to be true.

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

    perceived

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Generally recognized to be true.
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-07, author= Ed Pilkington
    • , volume=188, issue=26, page=6, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= ‘Killer robots’ should be banned in advance, UN told , passage=In his submission to the UN, [Christof] Heyns points to the experience of drones. Unmanned aerial vehicles were intended initially only for surveillance, and their use for offensive purposes was prohibited, yet once strategists realised their perceived advantages as a means of carrying out targeted killings, all objections were swept out of the way.}}
  • As seen or understood by an individual.

    • Derived terms

    * perceivedness

    Verb

    (head)
  • (perceive)
    • The alert officer perceived a dim shape in the distance.