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单词 percipience
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Definition of percipience in English:

percipience

noun pəˈsɪpɪənspərˈsɪpiəns
mass noun
  • The quality of having sensitive insight or understanding; perceptiveness.

    age has not impaired his percipience
    Example sentencesExamples
    • His percipience had been noted in high places, thanks to his lucid and penetrating despatches, and when the Foreign Office requested his services, he found himself with a desk at the British Embassy in Washington.
    • This percipience, following on earlier impercipience, is very odd.
    • The archive he has assembled is utterly unique and is a record of the percipience and acuteness of vision that, come what may, he has persisted in maintaining.
    • But it is a relief to see that the drugs appear to have done no permanent damage, and that age has not otherwise impaired his percipience.
    • He is unafraid to mention his own lack of percipience.
    Synonyms
    perceptiveness, perception, discernment, astuteness, shrewdness, insight, penetration, perspicacity, perspicaciousness, sharpness, sharp-wittedness, quick-wittedness, keen-wittedness, acuteness, acuity, discrimination, clear-sightedness, far-sightedness, intelligence, cleverness, canniness, wit, intuition, intuitiveness, alertness, judiciousness, judgement, wisdom, sagacity, sageness, understanding, sensitivity
    North American informal savvy
    rare sapience, arguteness

Rhymes

impercipience, incipience
 
 

Definition of percipience in US English:

percipience

nounpərˈsɪpiənspərˈsipēəns
  • Good understanding of things; perceptiveness.

    age has not impaired his percipience
    Example sentencesExamples
    • He is unafraid to mention his own lack of percipience.
    • This percipience, following on earlier impercipience, is very odd.
    • His percipience had been noted in high places, thanks to his lucid and penetrating despatches, and when the Foreign Office requested his services, he found himself with a desk at the British Embassy in Washington.
    • But it is a relief to see that the drugs appear to have done no permanent damage, and that age has not otherwise impaired his percipience.
    • The archive he has assembled is utterly unique and is a record of the percipience and acuteness of vision that, come what may, he has persisted in maintaining.
    Synonyms
    perceptiveness, perception, discernment, astuteness, shrewdness, insight, penetration, perspicacity, perspicaciousness, sharpness, sharp-wittedness, quick-wittedness, keen-wittedness, acuteness, acuity, discrimination, clear-sightedness, far-sightedness, intelligence, cleverness, canniness, wit, intuition, intuitiveness, alertness, judiciousness, judgement, wisdom, sagacity, sageness, understanding, sensitivity
 
 
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