percipience

per·cip·i·ent

P p

Transcription

- US Pronunciation
- US IPA
- UK Pronunciation
- UK IPA
- [per-sip-ee-uh nt]
- /pərˈsɪp i ənt/
- /pˈɜːsɪpˌiəns/

- US Pronunciation
- US IPA
- [per-sip-ee-uh nt]
- /pərˈsɪp i ənt/

Definitions of percipience word

adjective percipience perceiving or capable of perceiving. 1
adjective percipience having perception; discerning; discriminating: a percipient choice of wines. 1
noun percipience a person or thing that perceives. 1

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Origin of percipience

First appearance:

before 1655

One of the 46% oldest English words

1655-65; < Latin percipient- (stem of percipiēns) present participle of percipere to take in, equivalent to per- per- + -cipi- combining form of present stem of capere to take + -ent- -ent

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Parts of speech for Percipience

noun

adjective

verb

adverb

pronoun

preposition

conjunction

determiner

exclamation

Full grammatical hierarchy of Percipience

percipience popularity

A pretty common term. Usually people know it’s meaning, but prefer to use a more spread out synonym. About 69% of English native speakers know the meaning and use word.

According to our data most of word are more popular. This word is almost not used. It has a much more popular synonym.

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Synonyms for percipience

noun percipience

acuities — sharpness; acuteness; keenness: acuity of vision; acuity of mind.
acuity — Acuity is sharpness of vision or hearing, or quickness of thought.
acumen — keenness and quickness in understanding and dealing with a situation; shrewdness
apperception — the attainment of full awareness of a sensation or idea
cognition — Cognition is the mental process involved in knowing, learning, and understanding things.

All 14 Synonyms of percipience