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percipience|pəˈsɪpɪəns| [f. L. type *percipientia, f. percipient-em, pr. pple. of percipĕre to perceive: see -ence.] The action or condition of perceiving; perception, cognizance.
1768–74Tucker Lt. Nat. (1834) I. 313 Sense or percipience is the standing so circumstanced as that the impulse of objects striking upon us may be transmitted so as to raise perceptions. 1836I. Taylor Phys. The. another Life (1858) 126 The mind's..percipience of sensitive pleasure. 1886Gurney Phantasms of Living I. 406 An example of collective telepathic percipience. 1891Hardy Tess (1892) 378 She lay in a state of percipience without volition. |