percipiency

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

From 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.
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