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Percipience vs Perspicacious - What's the difference?

percipience | perspicacious |

As a noun percipience

is perception.

As an adjective perspicacious is

(figuratively) of acute discernment; having keen insight; mentally perceptive.

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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    perspicacious

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (figuratively) Of acute discernment; having keen insight; mentally perceptive.
  • (obsolete) Able to physically see clearly; quick-sighted; sharp-sighted.
  • Derived terms

    * perspicaciously * perspicaciousness

    See also

    * clairvoyant * conspicuous * perspective