percipiency

English

Alternative forms

• percipience

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pə(ɹ)ˈsɪpiənsi/

Noun

percipiency (uncountable)

1. The faculty, act or power of perceiving; perception.
   • 1844, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, A Drama of Exile:

     But rather coupled darkly and made ashamed
     By my percipiency of sin and fall
     In melancholy of humiliant thoughts.