perspicience
English
Etymology
From Latin perspicientia, from perspiciens, past participle of perspicere. See perspective.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /pɜːˈspɪ.ʃəns/, /pɜːˈspɪ.sɪəns/
Noun
perspicience (uncountable)
- (obsolete) The act of looking sharply; keen vision.
- 1866, George Western Thompson, The Living Forces of the Universe:
- The conscious perspicience of the subjective content of the Self in the action of its orgasmic forces and of its own autopsic domination is Psychology.
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Anagrams
- percipiences