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percipient

[ per-sip-ee-uhnt ]

adjective

  1. perceiving or capable of perceiving.
  2. having perception; discerning; discriminating:

    a percipient choice of wines.



noun

  1. a person or thing that perceives.

percipient

/ əˈɪɪəԳ /

adjective

  1. able to perceive
  2. perceptive
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

noun

  1. a person or thing that perceives
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Derived Forms

  • ˈ辱Գٱ, adverb
  • ˈ辱Գ, noun
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Other Word Forms

  • ·i·Գ ·i·· noun
  • non·i·Գ noun
  • non·i·· noun
  • ԴDzp·i·Գ adjective
  • ܲp·i·Գ adjective
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Word History and Origins

Origin of percipient1

1655–65; < Latin percipient- (stem of 辱ŧԲ ) 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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Word History and Origins

Origin of percipient1

C17: from Latin percipiens observing, from percipere to grasp; see perceive
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Example Sentences

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It’s fun wordplay with a percipient message, but fans might be further impressed to know she wrote and recorded the song extemporaneously in a single take, sitting in a studio chair while eight months pregnant.

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Sunak’s earlier warnings against Truss’s economic policies have proven percipient — and may ease his pathway to victory this time around.

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The new filing from his attorney Greg Smith says the “mayor is a key percipient witness who has personal factual information” to the officer’s case.

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On Wednesday, Lacey’s office said prosecutors in recent weeks had zeroed in on cases in which Shaw and Coblentz were the “sole percipient witnesses.”

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In a single conversation, he can go from tearful to introspective to thoughtful to percipient to maniacally competitive and full of trash talk.

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