Percipient - What does it mean?
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Having the ability to perceive, especially to perceive quickly.
(psychology, education, dated) Perceiving events only in the moment, without reflection, as a very young child.
(philosophy, psychology) One who perceives something.
* 1954 : , Dilemmas: The Tarner Lectures, 1953 , dilemma vii: Perception, page 99 (The Syndics of the Cambridge University Press)
(parapsychology) One who has perceived a paranormal event.
percipient
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- Over time children advance from the percipient stage to the perceptive stage, in which they begin to reflect on the significance of events.
Noun
(en noun)- As anatomy, physiology and, later, psychology have developed into more or less well-organized sciences, they have necessarily and rightly come to incorporate the study of, among other things, the structures, mechanisms, and functionings of animal and human bodies qua percipient .
- In the course of investigating the haunting, I interviewed several percipients .