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Percipience

Percipience \Per*cip"i*ence\, Percipiency \Per*cip"i*en*cy\, n. The faculty, act or power of perceiving; perception.
--Mrs. Browning.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
percipience

c.1770, from percipient + -ence.

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percipience

n. 1 perception 2 The state or condition of being highly perceptive, as if in an almost hypnotic or telepathic state.

Usage examples of "percipience".

But then her percipience gained clarity, and she saw that the danger was not imminent.

It violated her percipience in similar ways, but more acutely, as if it were the distilled essence of violation.

A remnant of her percipience had endured after she had regained consciousness: now it was gone.

Land, percipience had exposed her to evils against which she had no armor and no weapons.

More than once, percipience had enabled her to take possession of Covenant.

Nevertheless her thin percipience was enough to let her feel the urgency of his stride.

They were so near that even her faint percipience felt the leashed savagery of their lore and their blades.

He was new to percipience, delighted by it, and every unfamiliar vista among the peaks, every type of grass or shrub or tree which he had never seen before, every soaring bird, enhanced his excitement.

Thomas Covenant, Linden gradually refined her percipience until, like Stave and Mahrtiir, she could feel the character of the shimmering.

If she had reached out with her percipience, she would have felt a shock of recognition and eagerness galvanize the Ranyhyn.

Already she could feel her percipience fading, eroded by the tainted pall which overhung the Land.

With the last of her dwindling percipience, she saw both solid health and untroubled beneficence in the woman.

Because her percipience had dwindled, she had felt unable to see deeply into the Mahdoubt.

She needed the Staff to restore her health-sense, and needed percipience to use the Staff.

We consider indeed conditions for percipience, but only so far as those conditions are among the disclosures of perception.