percipiency

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English[edit]

Alternative forms[edit]

Etymology[edit]

percipient +‎ -cy, from Latin percipiō (perceive)

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /pə(ɹ)ˈsɪpiənsi/

Noun[edit]

percipiency (uncountable)

  1. The faculty, act or power of perceiving; perception.
    • 1844, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, A Drama of Exile:
      But rather coupled darkly and made ashamed
      By my percipiency of sin and fall
      In melancholy of humiliant thoughts.