percipient

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English

Etymology

From Latin percipiēns, present participle of percipiō (“to perceive”).

Adjective

percipient (comparative more percipient, superlative most percipient)

  1. Having the ability to perceive, especially to perceive quickly.
    • 1801, Robert Southey, “(please specify the page)”, in Thalaba the Destroyer, volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: […] [F]or T[homas] N[orton] Longman and O[wen] Rees, […], by Biggs and Cottle, […], →OCLC:
      Fasting, yet not of want
      Percipient, he on that mysterious steed
      Had reach’d his resting-place,
      For expectation kept his nature up.
  2. (psychology, education, dated) Perceiving events only in the moment, without reflection, as a very young child.
    Over time children advance from the percipient stage to the perceptive stage, in which they begin to reflect on the significance of events.

Translations

Noun

percipient (plural percipients)

  1. (philosophy, psychology) One who perceives something.
    • 1954: Gilbert Ryle, Dilemmas: The Tarner Lectures, 1953, dilemma vii: Perception, page 99 (The Syndics of the Cambridge University Press)
      As anatomy, physiology and, later, psychology have developed into more or less well-organized sciences, they have necessarily and rightly come to incorporate the study of, among other things, the structures, mechanisms, and functionings of animal and human bodies qua percipient.
  2. (parapsychology) One who has perceived a paranormal event.
    In the course of investigating the haunting, I interviewed several percipients.

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Latin

Verb

(deprecated template usage) percipient

  1. third-person plural future active indicative of percipiō
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