microperception
microperception noun: the perception of things that are not consciously registered.
Noun
microperception (countable and uncountable, plural microperceptions)
- The perception of things that are not consciously registered.
- The world in which we live is literally made of these reinaugural microperceptions, cutting in, cueing emergence, priming capacities. […] This would be a politics of microperception: a micropolitics.2008 August 15, Brian Massumi, Joel McKim, “Of Microperception and Micropolitics”, in Inflexions, number 3, archived from the original on 24 Apr 2018, pages 5, 7
- Sometimes, though, you pick up a novel and it makes your skin prickle — not necessarily because it’s a great novel qua novel, which you can’t know until the end, but because of the velocity of its microperceptions.2022 March 29, Dwight Garner, “In Jennifer Egan’s New Novel, Our Memories Are Available for All to See”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 28 Apr 2022
Forms of microperception
| plural | microperceptions |
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Origin of microperception
From micro- + perception.
Questions about microperception
- What does microperception mean?
- Microperception means the perception of things that are not consciously registered.
- What part of speech is microperception?
- Microperception is a noun.
- What is the plural of microperception?
- The plural of microperception is microperceptions.
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