percipient
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Latin percipiēns, present participle of percipiō (“to perceive”).
Adjective
[edit]percipient (comparative more percipient, superlative most percipient)
- Having the ability to perceive, especially to perceive quickly.
- 1801, Robert Southey, “The Sixth Book”, in Thalaba the Destroyer, volume II, London: […] [F]or T[homas] N[orton] Longman and O[wen] Rees, […], by Biggs and Cottle, […], →OCLC, page 8:
- Fasting, yet not of want
Percipient, he on that mysterious steed
Had reach’d his resting-place,
For expectation kept his nature up.
- 1874, John Tyndall, Advancement of Science: The Inaugural Address of Prof. John Tyndall ... Delivered Before the British Association for the Advancement of Science, at Belfast, August 19, 1874[1], New York: Asa K. Butts & Co., page 43:
- [...] 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.
- (psychology, education, dated) Perceiving events only in the moment, without reflection, as a very young child.
Translations
[edit]having the ability to perceive
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Noun
[edit]percipient (plural percipients)
- (philosophy, psychology) One who perceives something.
- 1954: Gilbert Ryle, Dilemmas: The Tarner Lectures, 1953, dilemma vii: Perception, page 99 (The Syndics of the Cambridge University Press)
- 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.
- 1954: Gilbert Ryle, Dilemmas: The Tarner Lectures, 1953, dilemma vii: Perception, page 99 (The Syndics of the Cambridge University Press)
- (parapsychology) One who has perceived a paranormal event.
- In the course of investigating the haunting, I interviewed several percipients.
Translations
[edit]one who perceives something
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One who has perceived a paranormal event
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