different between percipient vs perceptive

English

Etymology

From Latin percipi?ns, present participle of percipi? (“to perceive”).

Adjective

percipient (comparative more percipient, superlative most percipient)

1. Having the ability to perceive, especially to perceive quickly.
   • 1801, Robert Southey, Thalaba the Destroyer:

     Fasting, yet not of want
     Percipient, he on that mysterious steed
     Had reach’d his resting-place,
     For expectation kept his nature up.

2. (psychology, education, dated) Perceiving events only in the moment, without reflection, as a very young child.

   Over time children advance from the percipient stage to the perceptive stage, in which they begin to reflect on the significance of events.

Translations

Noun

percipient (plural percipients)

1. (philosophy, psychology) One who perceives something.
   • 1954: Gilbert Ryle, Dilemmas: The Tarner Lectures, 1953, dilemma vii: Perception, page 99 (The Syndics of the Cambridge University Press)

     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.

2. (parapsychology) One who has perceived a paranormal event.

   In the course of investigating the haunting, I interviewed several percipients.

Translations

Related terms

• perceive
• perceptive
• perceptor

Anagrams

• precipient

Latin

Verb

percipient

1. third-person plural future active indicative of percipi?

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /p??s?pt?v/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /p??s?pt?v/

Adjective

perceptive (comparative more perceptive, superlative most perceptive)

1. Having or showing keenness of perception, insight, understanding, or intuition.

   He is so perceptive when it comes to other people's feelings.

Related terms

• perceive
• perception
• perceptivity
• perceptively

Translations

Anagrams

• preceptive

French

Adjective

perceptive

1. feminine singular of perceptif