impercipient

[ im-per-sip-ee-uhnt ]

adjective

1. lacking perception; imperceptive.

Other Words From

• imper·cipi·ence noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of impercipient¹

First recorded in 1805–15; im- ² + percipient

Example Sentences

Here is one of my puzzlers: "Does B here mean impercipient and unperceived subject or conscious and percipient subject?"

From Project Gutenberg

Does not the image of a lovely wife, pining at home for the affection which an impercipient husband had diverted to his bills and invoices, immediately arise?

From Time Magazine Archive

The spiritist pronounces his gainsayer ‘impercipient,’ thus inexpensively cutting the knot of argument; and, himself a wilful continuator of the thought-forms of the savage, declares himself to be transcending the earthiness of the sciences in virtue of which he is civilised.

From Project Gutenberg

In person, Dr. Bonaday was remarkable for a completely bald head, a hooked nose, and a pair of vague, impercipient eyes, as of an owl astray and blinking in the sunlight.

From Project Gutenberg

Let us away then with 'logic' and away with 'ideas' from the art of literary criticism; but not, in a foolish and impercipient reaction, to revive the impressionistic criticism which has sapped the English brain for a generation past.

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