Percipiency

//pə(ɹ)ˈsɪpiənsi// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The faculty, act or power of perceiving; perception. uncountable

    "But rather coupled darkly and made ashamed By my percipiency of sin and fall In melancholy of humiliant thoughts."

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"But rather coupled darkly and made ashamed By my percipiency of sin and fall In melancholy of humiliant thoughts."

Etymology

From percipient + -cy, from Latin percipiō (“perceive”)

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