percipient

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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
percipient /pəˈsɪpɪənt/

▶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 L. percipient-, percipere ‘seize, understand’.

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