PERCEIVING Synonyms: 113 Similar and Opposite Words

perceiving

verb

present participle of perceive

as in sensing

to have a vague awareness of I thought I perceived a problem, but I wasn't sure

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as in noticing

to make note of (something) through the use of one's eyes perceived that it was going to be a nice day

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as in knowing

to have a clear idea of I perceive your point, but I still disagree

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Recent Examples of perceiving In 2020, Samir Nurmohamed, now an assistant professor of management at the University of Pennsylvania, published a paper that showed evidence that perceiving yourself as an underdog can lead to higher motivation and better performance at work. —

Rustin Dodd, New York Times, 2 June 2026 And there is the feeling of each character’s eyes taking in the viewer, creating a question of who is perceiving who. —

Leah Asmelash, CNN Money, 24 May 2026 Payscale's 2026 Compensation Best Practices Report found that 33% of employers say pay compression between newer and longer-tenured employees contributes to employees perceiving their pay as unfair. —

Caroline Castrillon, Forbes.com, 17 May 2026 The moment one starts perceiving what Arnold and friends undergo as excessively dismal, a quick peak at the live-action cruelty in action around the globe tempers that notion. —

Carlos Aguilar, Variety, 15 May 2026 Abraham Lincoln was wary of the doctrine, perceiving that any such notion of divine inevitability could be used to justify land grabs and war. —

Sebastian Smee, New Yorker, 4 May 2026 Kepler devoted much of his career to figuring out optics, and was arguably the first scientific thinker to articulate the difference between seeing and perceiving. —

Rebecca Boyle, The Atlantic, 10 Apr. 2026 The goal is to break the mental shorthand that keeps most of us from actually perceiving what's around us. —

Angela Haupt, Time, 7 Apr. 2026 The newly-sighted get better at perceiving differences in color, shape, and size — even if they were treated for their congenital cataracts after years of blindness—but not so much at spotting differences in shading or contours. —

Sachin Rawat, Big Think, 2 Mar. 2026

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Throughout his academic career, Furness worked alongside students, engineers, and researchers to help advance spatial computing technologies while also supporting companies connected to immersive systems, sensing technologies, and visualization research.

— Lyssanoel Frater, USA Today, 4 June 2026
In their court papers, the Iskander attorneys contend that the 62-year-old Grossman tried to flee the scene and likely would have succeeded had her vehicle not automatically shut down due to it sensing the massive impact that had just occurred.

— City News Service, Daily News, 3 June 2026