单词 | percipiency |
释义 | percipiencyn. The quality of being percipient; the action, condition, or faculty of perception; recognition; insight. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > physical sensibility > [noun] > consciousness wita1000 mindc1300 perceptiona1398 percipiency1662 feeling1734 consciousness1753 percipience1768 self-feeling1798 sentience1839 sentiencya1850 cœnaesthesisa1856 cœnaesthesia1885 the mind > mental capacity > understanding > intelligence, cleverness > sharpness, shrewdness, insight > [noun] > clarity knowledgea1398 perspiciencec1450 clearness1535 perspicacity1548 insightc1580 perspective?a1586 subtileness1591 perspicacy1600 clarity1616 quicksightedness1625 perspicuity1662 clear-sightednessa1691 perspicaciousness1727 percipiency1845 far-sightedness1846 clairvoyance1861 X-ray scrutiny1896 1662 H. More Coll. Several Philos. Writings (ed. 2) Pref. Gen. p. xiii A necessary requisite of that which is capable of the function of Common-Percipiency. 1844 E. B. Barrett Drama of Exile iii, in Poems I By my percipiency of sin and fall And melancholy of humiliant thoughts. 1845 E. B. Barrett Let. 3 Mar. (1897) I. 243 The review amused me..by its percipiency about your remembering me during your travels in the East. 1912 Times 13 Feb. 12/3 Claiming for the proper appreciation of winter scenery a special percipiency which is within the reach of the well-appointed motorist. 1958 Ethics 68 225/1 The percipiency of a wide traveler. 2001 Irish Times (Nexis) 8 Dec. 15 With remarkable percipiency (in 1967) he added: ‘It is safe to say that, five to 10 years hence, world television..will be thrown open to us’. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1662 |
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