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Perception vs Impercipient - What's the difference?

perception | impercipient |

As a noun perception

is organization, identification, and interpretation of sensory information.

As an adjective impercipient is

lacking perception; unable to perceive.

perception

Noun

(en noun)
  • Organization, identification, and interpretation of sensory information.
  • Conscious understanding of something.
  • Vision (ability )
  • Acuity
  • (cognition ) That which is detected by the five senses; not necessarily understood (imagine looking through fog, trying to understand if you see a small dog or a cat); also that which is detected within consciousness as a thought, intuition, deduction, etc.
  • Synonyms

    * (l)

    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.