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Perceiving - 20 thesaurus results
| Main Entry: | perceiving |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | alert |
| Synonyms: | attentive, aware, cognizant, conscious, observing, sensitive |
| Main Entry: | perceive |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | notice, see |
| Synonyms: | apprehend, behold, descry, discern, discover, distinguish, divine, espy, feel, grasp, identify, look, make out, mark, mind, note, observe, realize, recognize, regard, remark, seize, sense, spot, spy, take, apperceive, be aware of |
| Antonyms: | miss, neglect, overlook |
| Main Entry: | perceive |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | understand |
| Synonyms: | appreciate, apprehend, comprehend, conclude, copy, deduce, distinguish, feature, feel, flash*, gather, get, grasp, know, learn, pin*, read, realize, recognize, see, sense, track, get the message, get the picture |
| Antonyms: | misinterpret, misunderstand |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | eyesight |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | vision |
| Synonyms: | perceiving, perception, seeing, sight, view, optics, range of view |
| Main Entry: | sentient |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | conscious |
| Synonyms: | alert, attentive, awake, aware, cognizant, feeling, informed, knowing, noticing, observing, perceiving, receptive, responsive, seeing, understanding, watchful, able to recognize, apperceptive, in on, in the right mind, recognizing, sensitive to |
| Main Entry: | noting |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | noticing |
| Synonyms: | observant, observing, perceiving, seeing, seeing |
| Main Entry: | seeing |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | observing |
| Synonyms: | alert, awake, aware, conscious, noticing, observant, perceiving, regarding, inspecting, looking, looking at, surveying, viewing, witnessing |
| Main Entry: | conscious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | alert, awake |
| Synonyms: | acquainted, aesthetic, assured, attentive, au courant, aware, certain, cognizant, conversant, discerning, informed, keen, knowing, known, mindful, noticing, noting, observing, perceiving, responsive, seeing, sensible, sentient, sure, understanding, vigilant, watchful, with it*, able to recognize, alive to, apperceptive, apprised, felt, hep to, in on, in right mind, on to, percipient, recognizing, remarking, sensitive to, supraliminal, wise to, witting |
| Notes: | conscience is the noun meaning 'a sense of right and wrong' while conscious is the adjective meaning 'aware of something, being awake' |
| Antonyms: | ignorant, impassive, indifferent, senseless, unaware, unconscious, unmindful, unresponsive |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | feeling |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | sensation, especially of touch |
| Synonyms: | activity, awareness, consciousness, enjoyment, excitement, feel, pain, perceiving, perception, pleasure, reaction, reflex, sense, sensibility, sensitivity, titillation, excitability, excitation, innervation, motility, motor response, receptivity, responsiveness, sensuality, tactility, tangibility |
| Antonyms: | insensibility, numbness, unconsciousness |
| Main Entry: | recognition |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | identification, acknowledgment |
| Synonyms: | acceptance, admission, allowance, appreciation, assimilation, avowal, awareness, cognizance, concession, confession, consciousness, detection, discovery, double take*, high sign*, memory, notice, noticing, perceiving, perception, realization, recall, recollection, remembering, remembrance, respect, salute, sensibility, tumble*, understanding, verifying, acknowledging, apperception, apprehending, identifying, recalling, recognizance, recurrence |
| Antonyms: | forgetfulness, ignorance |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | sensitive |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | impressionable |
| Synonyms: | acute, cognizant, conscious, delicate, emotional, feeling, fine, high-strung, hung up*, impressible, irritable, keen, knowing, nervous, perceiving, perceptive, precarious, precise, psychic, receptive, responsive, seeing, sensory, sentient, susceptible, tense, ticklish, touchy, tricky, understanding, unstable, wired*, easily affected, emotionable, hypersensitive, oversensitive, reactive, sensatory, sensile, sensorial, supersensitive, touchy feely, tuned in, turned on to, umbrageous |
| Antonyms: | impassive, insensitive, thick-skinned, unsusceptible |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | thought |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | formation of mental objects |
| Synonyms: | anticipation, attention, cogitation, cognition, consideration, considering, contemplation, deduction, deliberation, discerning, heed, hope, introspection, intuition, judging, knowing, logic, meditation, musing, perceiving, realizing, reasoning, reflection, regard, scrutiny, seeing, speculation, study, thinking, understanding, apprehending, brainwork, cerebration, concluding, deducing, deriving, ideation, inducing, inferring, rationalization, rationalizing, rumination, theorization |
| Antonyms: | vacancy, vacuity |
| Main Entry: | vision |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | ability to perceive with eyes |
| Synonyms: | eyesight, faculty, perceiving, perception, seeing, sight, view, eyes, optics, range of view |
| Antonyms: | blindness, sightlessness |
| Main Entry: | reasonable |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | intelligent, practical |
| Synonyms: | advisable, all there, arguable, believable, cerebral, clear-cut, cognitive, commonsensical, conscious, consequent, consistent, cool*, credible, in one's right mind, judicious, justifiable, levelheaded, logical, perceiving, percipient, plausible, ratiocinative, rational, reasoned, reasoning, reflective, sane, sensible, sober, sound, tenable, thought-out, thoughtful, together*, tolerant, unbiased, unprejudiced, well-advised, wise |
| Antonyms: | implausible, impractical, nonsensical, stupid, unreasonable |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | realizing |
| Part of Speech: | adjective3 |
| Definition: | understanding |
| Synonyms: | discerning, finding, grasping, knowing, perceiving, appreciating, apprehending, being aware, comprehending, recognizing |
| Main Entry: | appreciate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | recognize worth |
| Synonyms: | acknowledge, apprehend, comprehend, dig, fathom, grasp, know, perceive, read, realize, recognize, savvy, understand, be aware of, be cognizant of, be conscious of, catch the drift, see daylight, sympathize with, take account of |
| Main Entry: | apprehend |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | understand |
| Synonyms: | absorb, accept, appreciate, believe, catch, comprehend, conceive, digest, fathom, get, grasp, have, imagine, know, perceive, read, realize, recognize, sense, think, get the picture |
| Antonyms: | misunderstand |
| Main Entry: | behold |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | regard; look at |
| Synonyms: | catch, consider, contemplate, descry, discern, distinguish, earmark, eye, eyeball, feast one's eyes, flash*, lay eyes on, note, notice, observe, perceive, regard, scan, see, spot, spy, survey, view, watch, witness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | catch |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | hear and understand |
| Synonyms: | accept, apprehend, comprehend, discern, feel, follow, get, grasp, perceive, recognize, see, sense, take in, understand |
| Main Entry: | comprehend |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | understand |
| Synonyms: | appreciate, apprehend, assimilate, catch, click, conceive, dig*, discern, envisage, envision, fathom, get*, grasp, have, know, make out*, perceive, read, savvy*, see, take in, tumble*, capiche, cognize, get the picture, gotcha |
| Antonyms: | misinterpret, mistake, misunderstand |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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