percipient
Americanadjective
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perceiving or capable of perceiving.
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having perception; discerning; discriminating.
a percipient choice of wines.
noun
adjective
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able to perceive
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perceptive
noun
Other Word Forms
- nonpercipience noun
- nonpercipiency noun
- nonpercipient adjective
- percipience noun
- percipiency noun
- percipiently adverb
- unpercipient adjective
Etymology
Origin of percipient
1655–65; < Latin percipient- (stem of percipiēns ) present participle of percipere to take in, equivalent to per- per- + -cipi- combining form of present stem of capere to take + -ent- -ent
Example Sentences
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It’s fun wordplay with a percipient message, but fans might be further impressed to know she wrote and recorded the song extemporaneously in a single take, sitting in a studio chair while eight months pregnant.
From Washington Post
The new filing from his attorney Greg Smith says the “mayor is a key percipient witness who has personal factual information” to the officer’s case.
From Los Angeles Times
On Wednesday, Lacey’s office said prosecutors in recent weeks had zeroed in on cases in which Shaw and Coblentz were the “sole percipient witnesses.”
From Los Angeles Times
In a single conversation, he can go from tearful to introspective to thoughtful to percipient to maniacally competitive and full of trash talk.
From Washington Post
In the weeks after the Aberfan disaster, Barker replied to sixty “percipients,” as he called them, and travelled to meet several.
From The New Yorker
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