percipiency

noun

percipiency

noun

/pə(ɹ)ˈsɪpiənsi/

Etymology From percipient + -cy, from Latin percipiō (“perceive”)

1

The faculty, act or power of perceiving; perception.

  • But rather coupled darkly and made ashamed By my percipiency of sin and fall In melancholy of humiliant thoughts.1844, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, A Drama of Exile:
Derived terms
omnipercipiency

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