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percipient
[ per-sip-ee-uhnt ]
adjective
- perceiving or capable of perceiving.
- having perception; discerning; discriminating:
a percipient choice of wines.
noun
- a person or thing that perceives.
percipient
/ pəˈsɪpɪənt /
adjective
- able to perceive
- perceptive
noun
- a person or thing that perceives
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Derived Forms
- perˈcipiently, adverb
- perˈcipience, noun
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Other Words From
- per·cipi·ence per·cipi·en·cy noun
- nonper·cipi·ence noun
- nonper·cipi·en·cy noun
- nonper·cipi·ent adjective
- unper·cipi·ent adjective
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Word History and Origins
Origin of percipient1
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Word History and Origins
Origin of percipient1
C17: from Latin percipiens observing, from percipere to grasp; see perceive
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Example Sentences
Percipient, per-sip′i-ent, adj. perceiving: having the faculty of perception.
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Because, he says, to exist is to be perceived, and therefore for the universe to exist implies a universal Percipient.
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In these experiments with objects, the percipient was blindfolded and the object moreover was kept out of range of vision.
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Hallucination decided upon before going to sleep was produced—the percipient awake and in normal condition.
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Both agent and percipient awake and normal—hallucination produced at a distance of four hundred miles.
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