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percipient

(n): a person who becomes aware (of things or events) through the senses
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4 months ago chained_bear said:

"...although he was wary, percipient, and acute enough to have survived several campaigns in which many of his colleagues had died, some under torture, he was by no means omniscient..."
--Patrick O'Brian, The Far Side of the World, 34–35

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