percipient

percipient
a) Having the ability to perceive, especially to perceive quickly.

Over time children advance from the percipient stage to the perceptive stage, in which they begin to reflect on the significance of events.

b) Perceiving events only in the moment, without reflection, as a very young child.
2. noun
a) One who perceives something.

As anatomy, physiology and, later, psychology have developed into more or less well-organized sciences, they have necessarily and rightly come to incorporate the study of, among other things, the structures, mechanisms, and functionings of animal and human bodies qua percipient.

b) One who has perceived a paranormal event.

In the course of investigating the haunting, I interviewed several percipients.

See Also: perceive, perceptive, perceptor

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  • Percipient — Per*cip i*ent, a. [L. percipiens, entis, p. pr. of percipere. See {Perceive}.] Having the faculty of perception; perceiving; as, a percipient being. Bentley. n. One who, or that which, is percipient. Glanvill. [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • percipient — index circumspect, cognizant, conscious (aware), judicious, juridical, knowing, omniscient, perceptive …   Law dictionary

  • percipient — ● percipient nom masculin Personne qui reçoit d une autre une information télépathique …   Encyclopédie Universelle

  • percipient — 1660s (n.), 1690s (adj.), from L. percipientem (see PERCIPIENCE (Cf. percipience)) …   Etymology dictionary

  • percipient — ► ADJECTIVE ▪ having a perceptive understanding. ► NOUN ▪ (especially in philosophy or with reference to psychic phenomena) a person who is able to perceive things. DERIVATIVES percipience noun percipiently adverb …   English terms dictionary

  • percipient — [pər sip′ē ənt] adj. [L percipiens, prp. of percipere: see PERCEIVE] perceiving, esp. keenly or readily n. a person who perceives percipience n. percipiency percipiently adv …   English World dictionary

  • percipient — I. noun Etymology: Latin percipient , percipiens, present participle of percipere to perceive Date: 1662 1. one that perceives 2. a person on whose mind a telepathic impulse or message is held to fall II. adjective Date: 1692 capable of or… …   New Collegiate Dictionary

  • percipient — percipience, percipiency, n. /peuhr sip ee euhnt/, adj. 1. perceiving or capable of perceiving. 2. having perception; discerning; discriminating: a percipient choice of wines. n. 3. a person or thing that perceives. [1655 65; < L percipient (s.… …   Universalium

  • percipient — [pə sɪpɪənt] adjective having a perceptive understanding of things. noun (especially in philosophy or with reference to psychic phenomena) a person who is able to perceive things. Derivatives percipience noun percipiently adverb Origin C17: from… …   English new terms dictionary

  • percipient — per•cip•i•ent [[t]pərˈsɪp i ənt[/t]] adj. 1) perceiving or capable of perceiving 2) having or showing perception; discerning 3) one that perceives • Etymology: 1655–65; < L percipient (s. of percipiēns), prp. of percipere to take in; see… …   From formal English to slang

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