Meanings
- not comparableOf, pertaining to, or stimulated by perception
1 more example
What it would be really interesting, and I dare say admirably difficult, to go into would be the very history of this effect of experience; the history, in other words, of the growth of the immense array of terms, perceptional and expressional, that, after the fashion I have indicated, in sentence, passage and page, simply looked over the heads of the standing terms—or perhaps rather, like alert winged creatures, perched on those diminished summits and aspired to a clearer air.
1909, Henry James, "Preface", The Golden Bowl (Scribner, New York, 1909)
Origin
- Englishperception
- Proto-Indo-European*h₂el-
- Proto-Indo-European*h₂élisder.?
- Englishperceptional
From perception + -al.
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