apperception
noun
ap·per·cep·tion
ˌa-pər-ˈsep-shən 
1
: introspective self-consciousness
2
: mental perception
especially
: the process of understanding something perceived in terms of previous experience
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According to a 2021 study on silence-phenomena, silence is not simply the absence of words but a state rich with apperception: the intertwining of presence, memory and imagination.
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Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 2 Sep. 2025
Somehow, surely, given the importance of the personages, word got out about the Laffer curve meeting, and the markets, in their remarkable pan-human powers of apperception, digested that changes in the tax-rate cut direction were bound to happen.
—Brian Domitrovic, Forbes, 6 Dec. 2024
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Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 2 Sep. 2025
Somehow, surely, given the importance of the personages, word got out about the Laffer curve meeting, and the markets, in their remarkable pan-human powers of apperception, digested that changes in the tax-rate cut direction were bound to happen.
—Brian Domitrovic, Forbes, 6 Dec. 2024
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“Apperception.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/apperception. Accessed 29 Oct. 2025.
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apperception
noun
ap·per·cep·tion
-ˈsep-shən
: mental perception
especially
: the process of understanding something perceived in terms of previous experience compare assimilation sense 3
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