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Perceptive vs Perceiving - What's the difference?

perceptive | perceiving |

As an adjective perceptive

is having or showing keenness of perception, insight, understanding, or intuition.

As a verb perceiving is

present participle of lang=en.

As a noun perceiving is

the act by which something is perceived.

perceptive

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • having or showing keenness of perception, insight, understanding, or intuition
    • He is so perceptive when it comes to other people's feelings.

    Related terms

    * perceive * perception * perceptivity * perceptively

    Anagrams

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    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