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impercipience

impercipience noun: the quality of being impercipient.

Noun

impercipience (usually uncountable, plural impercipiences)

  1. (usually) The quality of being impercipient.
    • There are passages between the two men that sound like outtakes from Shakespeare's Sonnets: in which young Drood's pink confident charm, his callow impercipience and selfishness, his innocent all-of-a-piece-ness, seem to stimulate his saturnine uncle […]1985, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Between Men, New York, page 181

Forms of impercipience

pluralimpercipiences

Questions about impercipience

What does impercipience mean?
Impercipience means the quality of being impercipient.
What part of speech is impercipience?
Impercipience is a noun.
What is the plural of impercipience?
The plural of impercipience is impercipiences.

Words near impercipience in the dictionary

  1. imperceptions
  2. imperceptive
  3. imperceptively
  4. imperceptiveness
  5. imperceptivity
  6. impercipience
  7. impercipiences
  8. impercipient
  9. impercipiently
  10. imperdible
  11. imperence

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