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Definition of Perceptiveness

1. Noun. A feeling of understanding.

2. Noun. Delicate discrimination (especially of aesthetic values). "To ask at that particular time was the ultimate in bad taste"

3. Noun. Perception of that which is obscure.

4. Noun. The quality of insight and sympathetic understanding.

Definition of Perceptiveness

1. Noun. The state of being perceptive; acumen, discernment, insight ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Perceptiveness

1. [n -ES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Perceptiveness

percentiles percents percentual percept percept analysis perceptibility perceptible perceptibleness perceptibly perception

perceptional perceptions perceptive perceptive deafness perceptively perceptiveness perceptivities perceptivity perceptorium perceptron

perceptrons percepts perceptual perceptual closure perceptual defense perceptual disorders perceptual distortion perceptual expansion perceptual experience perceptual masking

Literary usage of Perceptiveness

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Popular Science Monthly by Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) (1893)
"The palms have but one fifth the perceptiveness possessed by the forefinger-ends ; the inner surfaces of the finger-joints next the palms have but one third ..."

2. The Contemporary Review (1893)
"The palms have but one-fifth the perceptiveness possessed by the ... If, then, it be that the extra perceptiveness acquired from extra tactual activities, ..."

3. The Popular Science Monthly (1893)
"The palms have but one fifth the perceptiveness possessed by the ... If, then, it be that the extra perceptiveness acquired from extra tactual activities, ..."

4. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1893)
"Why this unparalleled perceptiveness ? If survival of the fittest be the ascribed cause, ... It may, indeed, be said that the tactual perceptiveness of the ..."

5. Works by Herbert Spencer (1896)
"It may, indeed, be said that the tactual perceptiveness of the tongue-tip serves for ... But such extreme perceptiveness is needless for the purpose. ..."

6. Exploratio Philosophica by John Grote (1900)
"If we use the word ' perceptiveness' loosely to express notice, or apparent notice, of any facts which we may suppose to be in the universe, ..."

7. Rousseau and Romanticism by Irving Babbitt (1919)
"But to his aesthetic perceptiveness he failed, as I have already said, to add ethical perceptiveness because of his inability to distinguish between ethical ..."

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