Prehension

Quick meaning: Prehension is a noun meaning The act of grasping or gripping, especially with the hands.

Meaning

The act of grasping or gripping, especially with the hands.

More Meanings

1. (philosophy) According to Alfred North Whitehead, a type of universally acting perception that is not limited to living, self-conscious beings, and which involves an interconnectedness of the observer and the observed.

Example Sentences

The addiction to punning was related to a reverence for the "Word." In a pun or a hieroglyphic figure, several lines come together in what Whitehead would call "a prehension"; in the comprehension of an event, that sympathetic resonance between the observor and the "thing" observed, there is a correspondence between the cosmic word of the gods (the Logos of St. John) and the inner words of the human mind, for each shares existence because it is a manifestation of divine laws and harmony.

Word Forms

• prehensions

Synonyms for prehension

Depending on context, synonyms include grasping, seizing.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include seizing, grasping, grasp, gripping, hold, grip.

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