impercipient

adj

impercipient

adj

UK /ɪmpəˈsɪpɪənt/

Etymology From im- + percipient.

1

Lacking perception; unable to perceive.

  • Nevertheless, his attitude to such plebeian upstarts was lofty and impercipient: not having been introduced to them, he had not the pleasure of their acquaintance, so to speak.1928, Siegfried Sassoon, Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man, Penguin, published 2013, page 215:
Derived terms
impercipiently

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