percipient
/pɚˈsɪp.i.ənt/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.17 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
4
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
One who has perceived a paranormal event.
Example Sentences
- "Fasting, yet not of want Percipient, he on that mysterious steed Had reach’d his resting-place, For expectation kept his nature up."
- "[...] he calls attention to the use of glasses […] The eye itself is no more percipient than the glass; is quite as much the instrument of the true self, and also as foreign to the true self, as the glass is."
- "Mehring was a well-read and percipient critic and quite aware of the difference between great and mediocre art."
- "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."
Etymology
From Latin percipiēns, present participle of percipiō (“to perceive”).
Origin
- Source language: Latin
Word Breakdown
- Root: *keh₂p-, percipiēns
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /pɚˈsɪp.i.ənt/
- British English: /pəˈsɪp.i.ənt/