PERCIPIENT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does percipient mean? 

• PERCIPIENT (noun)
  The noun PERCIPIENT has 1 sense:

1. a person who becomes aware (of things or events) through the senses

  Familiarity information: PERCIPIENT used as a noun is very rare.

• PERCIPIENT (adjective)
  The adjective PERCIPIENT has 1 sense:

1. characterized by ease and quickness in perceiving

  Familiarity information: PERCIPIENT used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PERCIPIENT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A person who becomes aware (of things or events) through the senses

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

beholder; observer; perceiver; percipient

Hypernyms ("percipient" is a kind of...):

individual; mortal; person; somebody; someone; soul (a human being)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "percipient"):

eyeglass wearer (a person who wears spectacles in order to see better)

discoverer; finder; spotter (someone who is the first to observe something)

attender; auditor; hearer; listener (someone who listens attentively)

audile (one whose mental imagery is auditory rather than visual or motor)

motile (one whose prevailing mental imagery takes the form of inner feelings of action)

noticer (someone who takes notice)

seer (an observer who perceives visually)

looker; spectator; viewer; watcher; witness (a close observer; someone who looks at something (such as an exhibition of some kind))

visualiser; visualizer (one whose prevailing mental imagery is visual)

informant; witness; witnesser (someone who sees an event and reports what happened)

• PERCIPIENT (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Characterized by ease and quickness in perceiving

Synonyms:

clear; percipient

Context example:

a percipient author

Similar:

discerning (having or revealing keen insight and good judgment)

Derivation:

perceive (become conscious of)