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Discernment vs Percipience - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between discernment and percipience

is that discernment is the ability to distinguish; judgement while percipience is perception.

discernment

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • The ability to distinguish; judgement.
  • Discrimination.
  • To distinguish between things.
  • To perceive differences that exist.
  • The condition of understanding.
  • Aesthetic discrimination; taste, appreciation.
  • Perceptiveness.
  • The ability to make wise judgements; sagacity.
  • Discretion in judging objectively.

    • Related terms

    * discern

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    percipience

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • perception
  • The state or condition of being highly perceptive, as if in an almost hypnotic or telepathic state.
    • 1891' ''She lay in a state of '''percipience without volition, and the rustle of the straw and the cutting of the ears by the others had the weight of bodily touches.'' — Thomas Hardy, '' Tess of the d'Urbervilles.

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