percipient
English
Etymology
From Latin percipiēns, present participle of percipiō (“to perceive”).
Adjective
percipient (comparative more percipient, superlative most percipient)
- Having the ability to perceive, especially to perceive quickly.
- (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
having the ability to perceive
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Noun
percipient (plural percipients)
- (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.
- 1954: Gilbert Ryle, Dilemmas: The Tarner Lectures, 1953, dilemma vii: Perception, page 99 (The Syndics of the Cambridge University Press)
- (parapsychology) One who has perceived a paranormal event.
- In the course of investigating the haunting, I interviewed several percipients.
Translations
one who perceives something
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One who has perceived a paranormal event
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Related terms
Latin
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