impercipient

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English

Etymology

From im- +‎ percipient.

Pronunciation

Adjective

impercipient (comparative more impercipient, superlative most impercipient)

  1. Lacking perception; unable to perceive.
    • 1928, Siegfried Sassoon, Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man, Penguin, published 2013, page 215:
      Nevertheless, his attitude to such plebeian upstarts was lofty and impercipient: not having been introduced to them, he had not the pleasure of their acquaintance, so to speak.