impercipiencen.
/ˌɪmpəˈsɪpɪəns/, U.S. /ˌɪmpərˈsɪpiəns/ Lack of perception; esp. lack of insight or awareness.
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the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > absence of perception > [noun]
discognisancec1475
imperception1644
imperceptiveness1662
imperceptivitya1680
non-perception1692
unconsciousness1712
imperceptibility1781
incognizancea1856
impercipience1882
no-mind1934
no-thought1949
no-mindness1959
1882 Spectator 22 July 963/2 The author's failure..in conciliatory effort, is, perhaps, the less to be regretted, except on account of his own impercipience.
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).
1995 Land Econ. 71 181/1 The common feature these so-called measurement and optimization errors share is the impercipience of their source, hence we call the combined effect of these errors perception error.
2004 Independent (Nexis) 22 July 17 The mother's impercipience climaxes when she asks Martin to join her in beseeching God to restore Pattie.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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