perspicience
English edit
Etymology edit
From Latin perspicientia, from perspiciens, past participle of perspicere. See perspective.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
perspicience (uncountable)
- (obsolete) The act of looking sharply; keen vision.
- 1866, George Western Thompson, The Living Forces of the Universe:
- The conscious perspicience of the subjective content of the Self in the action of its orgasmic forces and of its own autopsic domination is Psychology.