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
Concede intellectual power, or the spiritual element, then add this temperament, and there follows a certain subtile, penetrative, radical quality of thought, a characteristic percipience of principles.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 12, October, 1858 by Various
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 Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
