Underperceive vs Overperceive - What's the difference?
underperceive | overperceive | Antonyms |
To perceive to a lesser degree than actually exists.
* 2003 , W. James Potter, The 11 myths of media violence (page 211)
To perceive to a greater degree than actually exists.
* 2007 , Greg Cashman, Leonard C. Robinson, An introduction to the causes of war (page 378)
Overperceive is a antonym of underperceive.
In transitive terms the difference between underperceive and overperceive
is that underperceive is to perceive to a lesser degree than actually exists while overperceive is to perceive to a greater degree than actually exists.underperceive
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Verb
(underperceiv)- The problem with this belief is that the public does not "see" much of this violence, because it is not graphic enough to offend them, so the public is greatly underperceiving the amount of violence to which they are exposed.
Antonyms
* overperceiveoverperceive
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Verb
(overperceiv)- In the United States, the assessment of threat emanating from Iraq was almost certainly overperceived .
