percipiency
English
Alternative forms
- percipience
Etymology
percipient + -cy, from Latin percipiō (“perceive”)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pə(ɹ)ˈsɪpiənsi/
Noun
percipiency (uncountable)
- 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.
- But rather coupled darkly and made ashamed
- 1844, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, A Drama of Exile