percipience

English

Etymology

From percipient, itself from the Latin percipiens, the past participle of percipere (“to perceive”).

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Noun

percipience (usually uncountable, plural percipiences)

1. perception
2. The state or condition of being highly perceptive, as if in an almost hypnotic or telepathic state.
   • 1891, Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles.‎^[1], archived from the original on 11 August 2014:

     She lay in a state of percipience without volition, and the rustle of the straw and the cutting of the ears by the others had the weight of bodily touches.

   • 2014, Gordon Parker, (Please provide the book title or journal name)‎^[2]:

     Percipience is sometimes increased, with individuals observing that they are more astute in judging people, in seeing patterns in data, or in reading “micro-expressions of people” and nonverbal interpersonal nuances (e.g., “I think everyone is a lot happier,” “I judge people’s body language more accurately”).

References

• Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary, Springfield, Massachusetts, G.&C. Merriam Co., 1967