English > sensing: 2 senses > noun 2, act| Meaning | Becoming aware of something via the senses. |
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| Synonym | perception |
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| Narrower | lipreading | perceiving what a person is saying by observing the movements of the lips |
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| listening, hearing | The act of hearing attentively |
| look, looking, looking at | The act of directing the eyes toward something and perceiving it visually |
| smell, smelling | The act of perceiving the odor of something |
| taste, tasting | A kind of sensing |
| Broader | sensory activity | Activity intended to achieve a particular sensory result |
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| Spanish | percepción, sensación |
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| Catalan | percepció, sensació |
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| Verbs | sense | perceive by a physical sensation / sensation, e.g., coming from the skin or muscles |
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