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percipient en · ADJ

Pronunciation

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• /pɚˈsɪp.i.ənt/ (General-American)
• /pəˈsɪp.i.ənt/ (Received-Pronunciation)

Etymology

From Latin percipiēns, present participle of percipiō (“to perceive”).

Meanings

1. Having the ability to perceive, especially to perceive quickly.
   • Fasting, yet not of want Percipient, he on that mysterious steed Had reach’d his resting-place, For expectation kept his nature up. 1801, Robert Southey, “The Sixth Book”, in Thalaba the Destroyer, volume II, London: […] [F]or T[homas] N[orton] Longman and O[wen] Rees, […], by Biggs and Cottle, […], →OCLC, page 8:
   • [...] he calls attention to the use of glasses […] The eye itself is no more percipient than the glass; is quite as much the instrument of the true self, and also as foreign to the true self, as the glass is. 1874, John Tyndall, Advancement of Science: The Inaugural Address of Prof. John Tyndall ... Delivered Before the British Association for the Advancement of Science, at Belfast, August 19, 1874, New York: Asa K. Butts & Co., page 43:
   • Mehring was a well-read and percipient critic and quite aware of the difference between great and mediocre art. 1978 [1976], Leszek Kołakowski, translated by P[aul] S[teven] Falla, Main Currents of Marxism, volume II: The Golden Age, Oxford: Clarendon Press, translation of Główne nurty marksizmu: rozwój (in Polish), →ISBN, →OCLC, page 60:
2. (dated) Perceiving events only in the moment, without reflection, like a very young child.

Forms

Spelling	Features	Labels	Source
more percipient	Degree=Cmp		lexicographic
most percipient	Degree=Sup		lexicographic

Deriveds

percipiently · unpercipient · omnipercipient · percipiency · impercipient

Translations (4)

ga airitheach (having the ability to perceive) · bg лесно възприемащ (having the ability to perceive) · ga braiteach (having the ability to perceive) · ga tuisceanach (having the ability to perceive)

percipient en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• (US) audio
• /pɚˈsɪp.i.ənt/ (General-American)
• /pəˈsɪp.i.ənt/ (Received-Pronunciation)

Etymology

From Latin percipiēns, present participle of percipiō (“to perceive”).

Meanings

1. One who perceives something.
   • As anatomy, physiology and, later, psychology have developed into more or less well-organized sciences, they have necessarily and rightly come to incorporate the study of, among other things, the structures, mechanisms, and functionings of animal and human bodies qua percipient. 1954: Gilbert Ryle, Dilemmas: The Tarner Lectures, 1953, dilemma vii: Perception, page 99 (The Syndics of the Cambridge University Press)
2. One who has perceived a paranormal event.
   • In the course of investigating the haunting, I interviewed several percipients.

Forms

Spelling	Features	Labels	Source
percipients	Number=Plur		lexicographic

Relateds

perceive · perceptive · perceptor

Translations (2)

ga airitheoir (one who perceives something) · fr percipient (One who has perceived a paranormal event)