percipiency
English edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
percipient + -cy, from Latin percipiō (“perceive”)
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
percipiency (uncountable)
- The faculty, act or power of perceiving; perception.
- 1844, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, A Drama of Exile:
- But rather coupled darkly and made ashamed
By my percipiency of sin and fall
In melancholy of humiliant thoughts.
Categories:
- English terms suffixed with -cy
- English terms derived from Latin
- English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *keh₂p-
- English 4-syllable words
- English terms with IPA pronunciation
- English lemmas
- English nouns
- English uncountable nouns
- English terms with quotations