Definition of Perceptiveness

1. Noun. A feeling of understanding.

Exact synonyms: Insight, Perceptivity
Generic synonyms: Sensibility
Derivative terms: Perceptive, Perceptive, Perceptive

2. Noun. Delicate discrimination (especially of aesthetic values). "To ask at that particular time was the ultimate in bad taste"
Exact synonyms: Appreciation, Discernment, Taste
Generic synonyms: Discrimination, Secernment
Specialized synonyms: Connoisseurship, Vertu, Virtu, Style, Trend, Vogue, Delicacy, Discretion, Culture
Attributes: Tasteful, Tasteless
Derivative terms: Perceptive

3. Noun. Perception of that which is obscure.
Exact synonyms: Discernment
Generic synonyms: Perception
Derivative terms: Discern, Perceptive

4. Noun. The quality of insight and sympathetic understanding.
Generic synonyms: Sensitiveness, Sensitivity
Derivative terms: Perceptive
Antonyms: Unperceptiveness

Definition of Perceptiveness

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

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Perceptiveness

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Lexicographical Neighbors of Perceptiveness

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percept
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perceptiveness (current term)
perceptivities
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perceptorium
perceptron
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perceptual experience
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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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