All 5 Uses of
perception
in
Washington Square
- He had a great aversion to taking things too hard; he thought that half the discomfort and many of the disappointments of life come from it; and for an instant he asked himself whether, possibly, he did not appear ridiculous to this intelligent young man, whose private perception of incongruities he suspected of being keen.†
Chpt 9
- A brave little person, with lively perceptions, and yet a disbelief in her own talent for social, as distinguished from practical, affairs—this was his rapid mental resume of Mrs. Montgomery, who, as he saw, was flattered by what she regarded as the honour of his visit.†
Chpt 14
- Indeed, she even thought it wrong—in the sense of being inconsiderate—to attempt to act upon his feelings at all; her part was to effect some gentle, gradual change in his intellectual perception of poor Morris's character.†
Chpt 18
- We doctors, you know, end by acquiring fine perceptions, and it is impressed upon my sensorium that he has sat in these chairs, in a very easy attitude, and warmed himself at that fire.†
Chpt 27
- But even while her perception opened itself to this, she had no desire to catch him; his presence was painful to her, and she only wished he would go.†
Chpt 35 *
Definition:
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(perception as in: perception of injustice) a belief or opinion formed by viewing things a certain way