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perceptional

perceptional adjective: of, pertaining to, or stimulated by perception.

Adjective

perceptional (not comparable)

  1. Of, pertaining to, or stimulated by perception
    • 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...1909, Henry James, "Preface", The Golden Bowl (Scribner, New York, 1909)

Origin of perceptional

From perception + -al.

Words formed from perceptional

Questions about perceptional

What does perceptional mean?
Perceptional means of, pertaining to, or stimulated by perception.
What part of speech is perceptional?
Perceptional is an adjective.

Words near perceptional in the dictionary

  1. perceptibly
  2. perceptic
  3. perceptics
  4. percepting
  5. perception
  6. perceptional
  7. perceptionally
  8. perceptionism
  9. perceptionist
  10. perceptionistic
  11. perceptionists

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