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Perceptive, Percipient, and Perspicacious
- Perceptive
- When applied to people, the adjective perceptive describes a significant power of sensory or intellectual discernment. Applied to organs and processes, perceptive describes that which is related to sensory perception.
- Percipient
- The adjective percipient means quick to perceive. Percipient also serves as a synonym for perceptive.
- Perspicacious
- The adjective perspicacious means perceptive or percipient.