percipience
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[edit] Etymology
From percipient, itself from the Latin percipiens, the past participle of percipere (“to perceive”).
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[edit] Noun
percipience (uncountable)
- perception
- The state or condition of being highly perceptive, as if in an almost hypnotic or telepathic state.
- 1891 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. — Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles.
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- Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary, Springfield, Massachusetts, G.&C. Merriam Co., 1967
