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impercipient, a. (n.)|ɪmpəˈsɪpɪənt|
[f. im-2 + percipient.]
Not perceiving; lacking perception.
1813C. Lofft in E. H. Barker Parriana (1828) II. 77 note, A quality of impercipient substance. 1871Sir H. Holland Recoll. Past Life (1872) 180 A man singularly impercipient of natural beauty or grandeur. 1882F. W. H. Myers Renewal Youth 96 And is the World's in very truth An impercipient Soul?
B. n. One who lacks perception.
1898T. Hardy Wessex Poems 181 (title) The Impercipient.
So imperˈcipience, lack of perception.
1891T. Hardy Tess v. xlix. in Graphic 5 Dec. 665/2 Tess's warm outpouring lay awaiting him in a drawer..its ardour pitifully wasting itself on the cold darkness and impercipience of that receptacle. 1905Westm. Gaz. 30 Sept. 4/1 It is only our physical or mental impercipience that leaves the sluggish..mind an easy prey to the promptings of vulgarity. 1925A. Quiller-Couch Charles Dickens 71 A lost child, mooning incuriously along the hedgerows with an impercipience rivalling that of a famous Master of Trinity. 1971Country Life 1 Apr. 785/2 H. G. Wells making one of his terrifying comments (terrifying for impercipience). |