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Reading vs Perceiving - What's the difference?

reading | perceiving |

As a proper noun reading

is .

As a verb perceiving is

.

As a noun perceiving is

the act by which something is perceived.

reading

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (wikipedia reading)
  • The process of interpreting written language.
  • The process of interpreting a symbol, a sign or a measuring device.
  • A value indicated by a measuring device.
    • a speedometer reading .
  • A meeting where written material is read aloud.
    • a poetry reading .
  • An interpretation.
    • a reading of the current situation .
  • One of several stages a bill passes through before becoming law.

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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