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Recognizing vs Perceiving - What's the difference?

recognizing | perceiving |

As verbs the difference between recognizing and perceiving

is that recognizing is (us) while perceiving is .

As a noun perceiving is

the act by which something is perceived.

recognizing

English

Alternative forms

*recognising (UK )

Verb

(head)
  • (US)
  • 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