percipient
adjective
perceiving or capable of perceiving.
percipience
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a word derived from
percipient.
Example Sentences
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Readers knew to expect in a Flanigan column percipience and foresight, expressed in graceful, unaffected prose.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 22, 2021
I said things like “I don’t know how Dad got that idea” and “Dad must have misheard me,” hoping that if I rejected their percipience, they would simply dissipate.
From "Educated" by Tara Westover
It was an extraordinary demonstration of scientific percipience, and classic Oppenheimer.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
Reciprocal.—Used of cases where there is both agency and percipience at each end of the telepathic chain, so that A perceives P, and P perceives A also.
From Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death by F. W. H. (Frederic William Henry) Myers
Nothing can be more certain than that, apart from percipience, there is no matter that matters.
From God and Mr. Wells A Critical Examination of 'God the Invisible King' by William Archer
