percipience
- noun
- /pərˈsɪpiəns/
- Formal
:
percepción
- The teacher praised the student's percipience in understanding complex theories quickly.
Examples
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An artist's percipience is essential for interpreting emotions and expressing them through their work.
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Accordingly, what the times require is greater percipience in matters of art and culture, and a major purpose of arts education is to cultivate such percipience.
Academic text (1995) -
Like other activities in a percipience curriculum, they are strands in the weaving of percipience.
Academic text (1995) -
Accordingly, what the times require is greater percipience in matters of art and culture, and a major purpose of arts education is to cultivate such percipience.
Academic text (1995) -
Like other activities in a percipience curriculum, they are strands in the weaving of percipience.
Academic text (1995) -
For curriculum purposes, I have assumed that percipience in matters of art and culture is the general goal of arts education and that to achieve this goal the learner is usefully envisioned as a reflective observer.
Academic text (1995) -
What is most apparent from a cursory glance at these phases is that fostering aesthetic percipience is multifaceted, progressive, and time-consuming.
Academic text (1995) -
Her keen percipience allowed her to notice the subtle changes in his behavior.
Synonyms
677
4.6
The skill of noticing small details and what looks good
53
4.0
The ability to notice and understand things quickly
38
6.6
The ability to notice and judge things clearly and wisely
8
4.1
A strong ability to notice small things and work very carefully
7
8.1
Ability to think quickly and clearly
7
4.1
An ability to notice small details that others miss
3
6.4
Quick, clear thinking that helps you understand and decide
3
8.6
Awareness that something exists or is happening
2
9.6
The ability to notice and understand things quickly and clearly
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4.3
Noticing small details and understanding what they mean
1
6.9
Skill in understanding people or situations quickly and using that to your advantage
1
8.4
A quiet feeling that someone understands what is happening
1
6.6
Being quick to notice small details and other people's feelings
A quick ability to notice and understand things
A quick clear mind that notices small details
The ability to understand things quickly and make good decisions
The ability to notice small details by paying attention
The ability to know things right away without thinking
The ability to notice, understand, and judge things
Antonyms
How Perceptive
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Percipience comes from Latin parts per- 'completely' and capere 'to take', the same root found in the familiar word capture. So percipience is like 'taking in' details quickly, meaning a quick and clear ability to notice and understand things.