perspicience

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English

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Etymology

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From Latin perspicientia, from perspiciens, past participle of perspicere. See perspective.

Pronunciation

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  • (UK) IPA(key): /pɜːˈspɪ.ʃəns/, /pɜːˈspɪ.sɪəns/

Noun

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perspicience (uncountable)

  1. (obsolete) The act of looking sharply; keen vision.
    • 1866, George Western Thompson, The Living Forces of the Universe:
      The conscious perspicience of the subjective content of the Self in the action of its orgasmic forces and of its own autopsic domination is Psychology.

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