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Perceive vs Impercipient - What's the difference?

perceive | impercipient |

As a verb perceive

is to see, to be aware of, to understand.

As an adjective impercipient is

lacking perception; unable to perceive.

perceive

English

Alternative forms

* (obsolete)

Verb

  • To see, to be aware of, to understand.
  • * {{quote-magazine, year=2012, month=March-April
  • , author=Colin Allen , title=Do I See What You See? , volume=100, issue=2, page=168 , magazine=(American Scientist) citation , passage=Numerous experimental tests and other observations have been offered in favor of animal mind reading, and although many scientists are skeptical, others assert that humans are not the only species capable of representing what others do and don’t perceive and know.}}

    Synonyms

    * (l)

    References

    *

    impercipient

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Lacking perception; unable to perceive.
  • *1928 , (Siegfried Sassoon), Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man , Penguin 2013, p. 215:
  • *:Nevertheless, his attitude to such plebeian upstarts was lofty and impercipient : not having been introduced to them, he had not the pleasure of their acquaintance, so to speak.