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)

1. (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.

Anagrams

• percipiences