apperception

1. 1.

   the process whereby perceived qualities of an object are related to past experience

   Broaderbasic cognitive process

Other forms of apperception

plural

apperceptions·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about apperception

What does apperception mean?

apperception means "the process whereby perceived qualities of an object are related to past experience".

How many syllables are in apperception?

apperception has 5 syllables: ap-per-cep-ti-on. The stress falls on "ti".

Is apperception a common word?

apperception is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.