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   The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition.  2000.
 
apperception
 
SYLLABICATION:ap·per·cep·tion
PRONUNCIATION:  pr-spshn
NOUN:1. Conscious perception with full awareness. 2. The process of understanding by which newly observed qualities of an object are related to past experience.
ETYMOLOGY:New Latin appercepti, apperceptin- : Latin ad-, ad- + Latin percepti, perception; see perception.
OTHER FORMS:apper·ceptive (-sptv) —ADJECTIVE
 
 
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