impercipient, a. (n.)
(ɪmpəˈsɪpɪənt)
[f. im-2 + percipient.]
Not perceiving; lacking perception.
| 1813 C. Lofft in E. H. Barker Parriana (1828) II. 77 note, A quality of impercipient substance. 1871 Sir H. Holland Recoll. Past Life (1872) 180 A man singularly impercipient of natural beauty or grandeur. 1882 F. W. H. Myers Renewal Youth 96 And is the World's in very truth An impercipient Soul? |
B. n. One who lacks perception.
| 1898 T. Hardy Wessex Poems 181 (title) The Impercipient. |
So imperˈcipience, lack of perception.
| 1891 T. Hardy Tess v. xlix. in Graphic 5 Dec. 665/2 Tess's warm outpouring lay awaiting him in a drawer..its ardour pitifully wasting itself on the cold darkness and impercipience of that receptacle. 1905 Westm. Gaz. 30 Sept. 4/1 It is only our physical or mental impercipience that leaves the sluggish..mind an easy prey to the promptings of vulgarity. 1925 A. Quiller-Couch Charles Dickens 71 A lost child, mooning incuriously along the hedgerows with an impercipience rivalling that of a famous Master of Trinity. 1971 Country Life 1 Apr. 785/2 H. G. Wells making one of his terrifying comments (terrifying for impercipience). |