Percipient Definition

pər-sĭpē-ənt
adjective
Perceiving, esp. keenly or readily.
Webster's New World

(psychology, education, dated) Perceiving events only in the moment, without reflection, as a very young child.

Over time children advance from the percipient stage to the perceptive stage, in which they begin to reflect on the significance of events.
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noun
A person who perceives.
Webster's New World
One that perceives.
American Heritage

(parapsychology) One who has perceived a paranormal event.

In the course of investigating the haunting, I interviewed several percipients.
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Other Word Forms of Percipient

Noun

Singular:
percipient
Plural:
percipients

Origin of Percipient

  • Latin percipiēns percipient- present participle of percipere to perceive perceive

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Latin percipient-, root of percipiens, present participle of percipio (“to perceive")

    From Wiktionary

Percipient Sentence Examples

  • In addition to the presentation of revived memories, and of "objectivation of ideas or images consciously or unconsciously in the mind of the percipient," there occur "visions, possibly telepathic or clairvoyant, implying acquirement of knowledge by supra-normal means."

  • Thus his metaphysics is Leibnitzian, like that of Lotze, and yet is opposed to the most characteristic feature of monadology - the percipient indivisible monad.

  • This is yet another symbolic feature, the triad asking the percipient to join them to form a quaternity.

  • The principal percipient is Miss Z, aged 21 at the time of our interview in 1973.

  • One Good Turn Kate Atkinson Jackson Brodie returns in this sharply intelligent read that is also percipient, funny and totally satisfying.

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