percipience
UK/pəˈsɪp.i.əns//pɚˈsɪp.i.əns/
percipience noun: perception.
Noun
percipience (usually uncountable, plural percipiences)
- perception
- The state or condition of being highly perceptive, as if in an almost hypnotic or telepathic state.
- She lay in a state of percipience without volition, and the rustle of the straw and the cutting of the ears by the others had the weight of bodily touches.1891, Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles., archived from the original on 11 Aug 2014
- Percipience is sometimes increased, with individuals observing that they are more astute in judging people, in seeing patterns in data, or in reading “micro-expressions of people” and nonverbal interpersonal nuances (e.g., “I think everyone is a lot happier,” “I judge people’s body language more...2014, Gordon Parker, (Please provide the book title or journal name)
percipience meaning in Marathi
percipience in Marathi
- percipience
- चैतन्य caitanya
Forms of percipience
| plural | percipiences |
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Origin of percipience
From percipient, itself from the Latin percipiens, the past participle of percipere (“to perceive”).
Words formed from percipience
Questions about percipience
- What does percipience mean?
- Percipience means perception.
- What is percipience in Marathi?
- Percipience in Marathi is चैतन्य (caitanya). See Percipience meaning in Marathi.
- What part of speech is percipience?
- Percipience is a noun.
- How do you pronounce percipience?
- Percipience is pronounced /pəˈsɪp.i.əns/ (UK).
- What is the plural of percipience?
- The plural of percipience is percipiences.
Words near percipience in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: percipience (page history and authors); चैतन्य (Marathi) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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