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apperception (countable and uncountable, plural apperceptions)

• (uncountable, psychology and philosophy, especially Kantianism) The mind’s perception of itself as the subject or actor in its own states, unifying past and present experiences; self-consciousness, perception that reflects upon itself.
• (uncountable) Psychological or mental perception; recognition.
  • ✤ Conception is… the simplest act of thinking; it is the apprehension of the universal, as perception is the apperception of the particular.¹
  • ✤ For as she smiled I was gifted a glimpse past the apperception of an anonymous spherical quantity of human flesh; and into the individual.²
• (countable, psychology) The general process or a particular act of mental assimilation of new experience into the totality of one’s past experience.

Etymology

Borrowed from French aperception (New Latin apperceptiō, used by Gottfried Leibniz (1646–1716)).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˌæpəˈsɛpʃən/
• (General American) IPA: /ˌæpɚˈsɛpʃən/
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Footnotes

1. 1887, John Dewey, Psychology: ↩

2. 2009, Adam Roberts, Yellow Blue Tibia: ↩

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