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impercipience (usually uncountable, plural impercipiences)

  1. The quality of being impercipient.
    • 1985, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Between Men, New York, page 181:
      There are passages between the two men that sound like outtakes from Shakespeare's Sonnets: in which young Drood's pink confident charm, his callow impercipience and selfishness, his innocent all-of-a-piece-ness, seem to stimulate his saturnine uncle []