impercipience

9.9

A lack of awareness of what is happening

noun
/ɪmˈpɜrˌsɪpiəns/

: impercipiencia

Despite the clear signs of trouble, her impercipience kept her from acknowledging the problem.

Examples

His impercipience about the ongoing issues in the community frustrated his friends.
The team's impercipience to the changing market trends led to their eventual decline.
Internal and external worlds remain stubbornly incongruent, and memory is inseparable from misconstrual and impercipience.

Academic text (2017)

Synonyms

ignorance

vsimpercipience

316 3.9

Not knowing about something or how it works

centers on not perceiving or noticing rather than simply lacking knowledge

inattention

vsimpercipience

8 4.6

Not noticing things around you

is the general quality of lacking awareness beyond just not paying attention

cluelessness

vsimpercipience

5 4.2

Not knowing what to do or how something works

is the general lack of awareness rather than informal inability to cope

obliviousness

vsimpercipience

2 7.4

Not noticing things happening around you

is about lacking awareness but not necessarily complete or total

unawareness

vsimpercipience

2 5.4

Not knowing or noticing something

is specifically about lacking perception or awareness rather than only ignorance

blindness to

vsimpercipience

1 5.7

Not noticing or understanding something important

is a general lack of perception rather than specific failure to acknowledge facts

insensibility

vsimpercipience

1 7.8

A state when a person is unconscious and not aware of things around them

is absence of mental awareness rather than reduced physical or emotional feeling

incognizance

vsimpercipience

9.9

Not knowing about something

focuses on not perceiving or noticing rather than lacking general knowledge

noncognizance

vsimpercipience

9.9

Not being aware of a fact or change

is the general state of not perceiving rather than a failure of recognition

unknowingness

vsimpercipience

8.6

Being unaware of something

is about failing to perceive or notice rather than mere absence of knowledge

unenlightenment

vsimpercipience

9.7

A state of not knowing or understanding things

is more about immediate failure to perceive than broader intellectual lack

insentience

vsimpercipience

Specialized

9.9

The state of not being able to feel or notice things

is about lacking ordinary awareness rather than total absence of consciousness

Antonyms

awareness

336 3.2

Knowing about something or noticing it

perception

14 4.6

Noticing things using your senses such as sight or hearing

How Aware

alertness

14 2.9

awareness

336 3.2

unawareness

2 5.4

impercipience

9.9

obliviousness

2 7.4

Surface Forms

impercipience singular

impercipiences plural

Morphology

impercipience = percipience (semi-transparent) = im + percip + ience + ence

The prefix 'im-' negates 'percipience', but the root 'percip' is not immediately recognizable to all learners.

Etymology

The word impercipience comes from the negative prefix im- ('not') and the same root as perceive, from percipere, which means 'to notice'. So impercipience means 'not noticing' or 'being unaware', which explains its modern meaning.