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perceived

  • adjective
  • per·ceived
  • /pəˈsiːvd/

Generally recognized to be true.

Example

“The perceived wisdom is that people do not go in large numbers to black-and-white movies anymore”

Other meanings

  1. As seen or understood by someone.

    “In product design, where one deals with real, physical objects, there can be both real and perceived affordances, and the two need not be the same.”

Related words

  • imperceived
  • nonperceived
  • perceivedly
  • unperceived
  • perceived temperature
  • perceivedness

Where this comes from

This definition is adapted from “perceived” on Wiktionary, by its contributors, published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.