Word Meanings - PERCIPIENT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Having the faculty of perception; perceiving; as, a percipient being. Bentley. -- n.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of PERCIPIENT)

• Perceptive
• Cognitive
• apprehensive
• sensitive
• percipient
• Sentient
• Feeling
• conscious
• intelligent
• cognizant

Related words: (words related to PERCIPIENT)

• SENSITIVE
  1. Having sense of feeling; possessing or exhibiting the capacity of receiving impressions from external objects; as, a sensitive soul. 2. Having quick and acute sensibility, either to the action of external objects, or to impressions upon the
• APPREHENSIVENESS
  The quality or state of being apprehensive.
• FEELINGLY
  In a feeling manner; pathetically; sympathetically.
• INTELLIGENTIAL
  1. Of or pertaining to the intelligence; exercising or implying understanding; intellectual. "With act intelligential." Milton. 2. Consisting of unembodied mind; incorporeal. Food alike those pure Intelligential substances require. Milton.
• INTELLIGENTIARY
  One who gives information; an intelligencer. Holinshed.
• SENTIENTLY
  In a sentient or perceptive way.
• FEELER
  One of the sense organs or certain animals , which are used in testing objects by touch and in searching for food; an antenna; a palp. Insects . . . perpetually feeling and searching before them with their feelers or antennæ. Derham. 3. Anything,
• CONSCIOUSLY
  In a conscious manner; with knowledge of one's own mental operations or actions.
• INTELLIGENTLY
  In an intelligent manner; with intelligence.
• FEELING
  1. Possessing great sensibility; easily affected or moved; as, a feeling heart. 2. Expressive of great sensibility; attended by, or evincing, sensibility; as, he made a feeling representation of his wrongs.
• COGNIZANT
  Having cognizance or knowledge. .
• COGNITIVE
  Knowing, or apprehending by the understanding; as, cognitive power. South.
• CONSCIOUS
  1. Possessing the faculty of knowing one's own thoughts or mental operations. Some are thinking or conscious beings, or have a power of thought. I. Watts. 2. Possessing knowledge, whether by internal, conscious experience or by external
• FEEL
  f; akin to OS. gif to perceive, D. voelen to feel, OHG. fuolen, G. fühlen, Icel. falma to grope, and prob. to AS. folm paim of the hand, 1. To perceive by the touch; to take cognizance of by means of the nerves of sensation distributed all over
• INTELLIGENT
  of intelligere, intellegere, to perceive; inter between + legere to 1. Endowed with the faculty of understanding or reason; as, man is an intelligent being. 2. Possessed of intelligence, education, or judgment; knowing; sensible; skilled; marked
• APPREHENSIVELY
  In an apprehensive manner; with apprehension of danger.
• PERCIPIENT
  Having the faculty of perception; perceiving; as, a percipient being. Bentley. -- n.
• PERCEPTIVE
  Of or pertaining to the act or power of perceiving; having the faculty or power of perceiving; used in perception. "His perceptive and reflective faculties." Motley.
• SENTIENT
  Having a faculty, or faculties, of sensation and perception. Specif. , especially sensitive; as, the sentient extremities of nerves, which terminate in the various organs or tissues.
• APPREHENSIVE
  1. Capable of apprehending, or quick to do so; apt; discerning. It may be pardonable to imagine that a friend, a kind and apprehensive . . . friend, is listening to our talk. Hawthorne. 2. Knowing; conscious; cognizant. A man that has spent his
• UNCONSCIOUS
  1. Not conscious; having no consciousness or power of mental perception; without cerebral appreciation; hence, not knowing or regarding; ignorant; as, an unconscious man. Cowper. 2. Not known or apprehended by consciousness; as, an unconscious
• OMNIPERCIPIENT
  Perceiving everything. Dr. H. More.
• MISFEELING
  Insensate. Wyclif.
• INCONSCIOUS
  Unconscious.
• FELLOW-FEELING
  1. Sympathy; a like feeling. 2. Joint interest. Arbuthnot.
• SUBCONSCIOUS
  1. Occurring without the possibility or the fact of an attendant consciousness; -- said of states of the soul. 2. Partially conscious; feebly conscious.
• DISSENTIENT
  Disagreeing; declaring dissent; dissenting. -- n.
• SELF-CONSCIOUSNESS
  The quality or state of being self-conscious.
• SUBCONSCIOUSNESS
  The state or quality of being subconscious; a state of mind in which perception and other mental processes occur without distinct consciousness.
• MISAPPREHENSIVELY
  By, or with, misapprehension.