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Percipience vs Perspicuous - What's the difference?

percipience | perspicuous |

As a noun percipience

is perception.

As an adjective perspicuous is

clearly expressed, easy to understand; lucid.

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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    perspicuous

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Clearly expressed, easy to understand; lucid.
  • * 1776 , , Book I, Chapter 4,
  • I am always willing to run some hazard of being tedious in order to be sure that I am perspicuous;
  • (logic) Of a language or notation, such as that of formal propositional calculus: where the process of inference from premises to conclusion is explicitly laid out.
  • (rare) Transparent; translucent.
  • Antonyms

    * imperspicuous

    Derived terms

    * perspicuously * perspicuousness

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