percipient

UK /pəˈsɪp.i.ənt/ US /pɚˈsɪp.i.ənt/
adj 2noun 2

Definitions

adj

1

Having the ability to perceive, especially to perceive quickly.

Fasting, yet not of want Percipient, he on that mysterious steed Had reach’d his resting-place, For expectation kept his nature up.

[...] he calls attention to the use of glasses […] The eye itself is no more percipient than the glass; is quite as much the instrument of the true self, and also as foreign to the true self, as the glass is.

2

Perceiving events only in the moment, without reflection, like a very young child.

noun

1

One who perceives something.

As anatomy, physiology and, later, psychology have developed into more or less well-organized sciences, they have necessarily and rightly come to incorporate the study of, among other things, the structures, mechanisms, and functionings of animal and human bodies qua percipient.

2

One who has perceived a paranormal event.

In the course of investigating the haunting, I interviewed several percipients.

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