Word of the Day - Percipience

[debodun]

Percipience (noun) - good understanding of things; perceptiveness.

Her percipience as an art student enabled her to get employment as a museum guide.

 

[Robb.hisself]

I got a job once as a museum guard, but it didn't last. I guess I wasn't percipient enough. I am not the sharpest marble in the box.

 

[Pappy]

My job in the Army allowed me to advance to this. But it didn’t last. I wasn’t percipient enough.

 

[Kaila]

If someone had told me, before I read this OP,
that I have a lot of percipience;

I would likely have thought it was a criticism (it sounds like one)

instead of the positive quality, that seems to be more accurate.

 

[Kaila]

Some of the examples of the use of the word persipience,
sound like it's the same meaning as the word persistence;

But I see from the definition, in the OP,
that it isn't at all the same as that.

A person might succeed as an artist, or at other activity, occupation, or pursuit,
by having both!