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Discretion vs Percipience - What's the difference?

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Discretion is a related term of percipience.


As nouns the difference between discretion and percipience

is that discretion is discretion while percipience is perception.

discretion

English

Noun

(en-noun)
  • The quality of being discreet or circumspect.
    • Bob showed great discretion despite his knowledge of the affair.
  • The ability to make wise choices or decisions.
  • The freedom to make one's own judgements.
    • I leave that to your discretion .

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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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