单词 | projicience |
释义 | projiciencen. Chiefly Psychology. Now rare. Projicient activity or ability; the quality or fact of being conscious of one's surroundings. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > psychology > psychology of perception > process of perception > [noun] > perception of space > of one's surroundings projicience1906 1906 C. S. Sherrington Integrative Action Nerv. Syst. ix. 324 It is in the leading segments that we find the ‘distance-receptors’. For so may be called the receptors which, acting as sense-organs, initiate sensations having the psychical quality termed projicience. 1910 Encycl. Brit. IV. 407/1 The organs of the great distance-receptors, the organs which..initiate sensations having the quality of projicience into the sensible environment. 1927 J. H. Parsons Introd. Theory Perception ii. 7 At a somewhat higher level there is evidence of response to radiation of shorter wave-length—light, and perhaps ultra-violet radiation. As soon as this occurs the germ of projicience is found. 1949 A. Gesell et al. Vision xii. 196 This ability is a topographic discrimination, an elementary form of projicience. 1968 Jrnl. Aesthetics & Art Crit. 26 452/2 Pragmatic justification of the seeming reality of experiences of beauty is often attained when people agreeably compare experiences of intrinsic-value projicience in the presence of the same physical things. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1906 |
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