English

Noun

percipience ‎(usually uncountable, plural percipiences)

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 percipience 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, Tess of the d'Urbervilles.

References

• Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary, Springfield, Massachusetts, G.&C. Merriam Co., 1967