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
It was an extraordinary demonstration of scientific percipience, and classic Oppenheimer.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
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
The question of the true import of collectivity of percipience renews in another form that problem of invasion to which our evidence so often brings us back.
From Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death by F. W. H. (Frederic William Henry) Myers
Your sense of humour, that delicate percipience of proportion, that subrident check on impulse, that touch of the divine fellowship with human frailty, is a thing of mellower growth.
From The Fortunate Youth by William John Locke
