perceived

[ UK /pəsˈiːvd/ ]
[ US /pɝˈsivd/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. detected by instinct or inference rather than by recognized perceptual cues
    the felt presence of an intruder
    a sensed presence in the room raised goosebumps on her arms
    a perceived threat
  2. detected by means of the senses
    a perceived difference in temperature
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How To Use perceived In A Sentence

  • Yet countries perceived as our enemies nurture their computer geeks in the full knowledge that they are the future. Times, Sunday Times
  • He perceived that many forms had been subjected to what he calls degeneration, or, as we say, modification, and that the progress from the simple to the complex was by no means direct. Lamarck, the Founder of Evolution His Life and Work
  • Windsor and colleagues have referred to these as service demands or wants or as perceived or felt needs. An Introduction to Community Health
  • He perceived they were entering the great theatre of his first appearance, the great theatre he had last seen as a chequer-work of glare and blackness in his flight from the red police. When the Sleeper Wakes
  • Arriving at the confluence with the Columbia, of the river whose banks they were following, they perceived that it was the same which had been called _Lewis river_, by the American captain of that name, in Narrative of a Voyage to the Northwest Coast of America in the years 1811, 1812, 1813, and 1814 or the First American Settlement on the Pacific
  • Alternative ideology becomes a means of imbuing both self and community with an element of the mythic, and validating perceived limitations and shortcomings while sacralizing the mundane.
  • The beauty he has perceived must in accordance with our human needs find expression concretely, because it is only as he manifests himself in forms which we can understand that we are able to recognize him. The Enjoyment of Art
  • To minimize how this price is perceived, the self-defeating organization can avail itself of any of the techniques described here.
  • Products may also be different for less tangible reasons, such as perceived quality enhanced by brand names or advertising slogans. Microeconomics: Price Theory in Practice
  • It would appear that they formed in order to capitalise on certain perceived economic benefits.
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