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• n  a person who becomes aware (of things or events) through the senses
• s  characterized by ease and quickness in perceiving
  a percipient author

• Death takes no holidays in the terminal wards of this British state hospital; yet gallows humor staunchly stifles despair in Peter Nichols' remarkably percipient drama of human .
• Such biologist talk as the following will strike home its full weight only upon the percipient mind: "The ability to form the deepest and finest bond with one of the opposite .
• Devils represents Wilson the percipient tourist (in an essay on Italy's 16th century garden of sculptured monsters at Bomarzo), Wilson the memoirist and literary gamesman (in a .

• perceiver
• observer
• beholder
• clear