{"senses": [{"examples": [{"text": "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.", "ref": "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:", "type": "quotation", "bold_text_offsets": [[66, 81], [66, 82], [166, 181]]}, {"text": "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.", "ref": "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:", "type": "quotation", "bold_text_offsets": [[197, 213]]}], "links": [["perception", "perception"], ["thing", "thing"], ["consciously", "consciously"], ["register", "register"]], "categories": ["English countable nouns", "English entries referencing missing etymons", "English entries with etymology texts", "English entries with etymology trees", "English entries with etymon", "English entries with incorrect language header", "English lemmas", "English nouns", "English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *mey- (little)", "English terms prefixed with micro- (very small)", "English terms with quotations", "English uncountable nouns", "Pages using etymon with no ID", "Pages with 1 entry", "Pages with entries", "Pages with etymology trees", "Pages with etymon"], "glosses": ["The perception of things that are not consciously registered."], "tags": ["countable", "uncountable"]}], "pos": "noun", "head_templates": [{"name": "en-noun", "args": {"1": "~"}, "expansion": "microperception (countable and uncountable, plural microperceptions)"}], "forms": [{"form": "microperceptions", "tags": ["plural"]}], "etymology_text": "From micro- + perception.", "etymology_templates": [{"name": "ety", "args": {"1": "en", "2": ":af", "3": "micro-<id:very small>", "4": "perception", "tree": "1", "text": "+"}, "expansion": "From micro- + perception."}], "word": "microperception", "lang": "English", "lang_code": "en"}