Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Want of perception.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun Lack of perception.

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  • noun Lack of perception; failure to perceive.

Etymologies

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im- +‎ perception

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Examples

  • This little miracle of imperception is, however, there on the screen for all to see.

    film flam Larry McMurtry 1987

  • This little miracle of imperception is, however, there on the screen for all to see.

    film flam Larry McMurtry 1987

  • This little miracle of imperception is, however, there on the screen for all to see.

    film flam Larry McMurtry 1987

  • And if you wish to apply the threefold shapes of bodies to the impalpable and shapeless God, you must say, that the Progression of Almighty God, which spreads out to all things, is a Divine extension; and length, the power extending itself over the whole; and depth, the hiddenness and imperception incomprehensible to all creatures.

    Dionysius the Areopagite, Works (1897) Dionysius the Areopagite 1897

  • Her imperception of his feeling was the very sublimity of maiden innocence if it were real; if not, well, the coquetry was no great sin.

    A Laodicean : a Story of To-day Thomas Hardy 1884

  • A couple, or maybe, when irritated, three, were the most we ever set at a single enemy, and if we left him lying in a state of imperception, it was the most we ever did, except in a regular confliction, when a man is justified in saving his own skull by breaking one of an opposite faction.

    The Ned M'Keown Stories Traits And Stories Of The Irish Peasantry, The Works of William Carleton, Volume Three William Carleton 1831

  • Mr. Smith's book is spiritualism from beginning to end; and my anonymous gainsayer, honest of course, is either ignorant of the work he thinks he has read, or has a most remarkable development of the organ of imperception.]

    A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume II (of II) Augustus De Morgan 1838

  • "Father, I'm surprised at your gross imperception.

    Going to Maynooth Traits and Stories of the Irish Peasantry, The Works of William Carleton, Volume Three William Carleton 1831

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