percipient
About 0.18 uses per million words.
Meaning
- adjective Having the ability to perceive, especially to perceive quickly.
- adjective Perceiving events only in the moment, without reflection, like a very young child.
- noun One who perceives something.
- noun One who has perceived a paranormal event.
In the course of investigating the haunting, I interviewed several percipients.
- noun Someone who receives a telepathic communication or attempts to do so.
Similar words
discerning clear perspicacious clear-sighted apperceptive apprehensive perceptible discriminating quick on the uptake animadversive
Often followed by
and of is mind in event witness subject to
Word family
percipiently percipients
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