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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
- perˈcipience, noun
- perˈcipiently, adverb
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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
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Example Sentences
Percipient, per-sip′i-ent, adj. perceiving: having the faculty of perception.
Because, he says, to exist is to be perceived, and therefore for the universe to exist implies a universal Percipient.
In these experiments with objects, the percipient was blindfolded and the object moreover was kept out of range of vision.
Hallucination decided upon before going to sleep was produced—the percipient awake and in normal condition.
Both agent and percipient awake and normal—hallucination produced at a distance of four hundred miles.
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