percipience

Example Sentences

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Readers knew to expect in a Flanigan column percipience and foresight, expressed in graceful, unaffected prose.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 22, 2021

It was an extraordinary demonstration of scientific percipience, and classic Oppenheimer.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik

I said things like “I don’t know how Dad got that idea” and “Dad must have misheard me,” hoping that if I rejected their percipience, they would simply dissipate.

From "Educated" by Tara Westover

The variance is as that between percipience and sensation.

From Lodges in the Wilderness by Scully, W. C. (William Charles)

Other creatures, he notes, share in his sensations; but, so far as he can discover, not in his percipience —or not in any degree worth measuring.

From On The Art of Reading by Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir