Percipient

Quick meaning: Percipient is an adjective meaning Having the ability to perceive, especially to perceive quickly.

Meaning

Having the ability to perceive, especially to perceive quickly.

More Meanings

1. (psychology, education, dated) Perceiving events only in the moment, without reflection, like a very young child.
2. (philosophy, psychology) One who perceives something.
3. (parapsychology) One who has perceived a paranormal event.

Example Sentences

In the course of investigating the haunting, I interviewed several percipients.

Fasting, yet not of want Percipient, he on that mysterious steed Had reach’d his resting-place, For expectation kept his nature up.

[...] he calls attention to the use of glasses […] The eye itself is no more percipient than the glass; is quite as much the instrument of the true self, and also as foreign to the true self, as the glass is.

As anatomy, physiology and, later, psychology have developed into more or less well-organized sciences, they have necessarily and rightly come to incorporate the study of, among other things, the structures, mechanisms, and functionings of animal and human bodies qua percipient.

Word Forms

• percipients

Synonyms for percipient

Depending on context, synonyms include clear, discerning.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include discerning, clear, perspicacious, clear-sighted, apperceptive, apprehensive.

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