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noun 
  1. perception
  2. The state or condition of being highly perceptive, as if in an almost hypnotic or telepathic state.
1891 She lay in a state of without volition, and the rustle of the straw and the cutting of the ears by the others had the weight of bodily touches. " Thomas Hardy, http://etext.virginia.edu/etcbin/ot2www-pubeng?specfile=/texts/english/modeng/publicsearch/modengpub.o2w&act=surround&offset=344489708&tag=Hardy,+Thomas:+Tess+of+the+d'Urbervilles,+1891&query=+percipience&id=HarTess? Tess of the d'Urbervilles.
Etymology: From percipient, itself from the percipiens, the past participle of percipere 'to perceive'


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