perceptiveness

Noun

per=cep=tive=ness

WORDNET DICTIONARY

perceptiveness(n = noun.feeling) insight, perceptivity - a feeling of understanding;

is a kind of sensibility

Derived forms adjective perceptive₂, adjective perceptive₁

perceptiveness(n = noun.cognition) appreciation, discernment, taste - delicate discrimination (especially of aesthetic values); "arrogance and lack of taste contributed to his rapid success"; "to ask at that particular time was the ultimate in bad taste"

is a kind of discrimination, secernment

has particulars: connoisseurship, vertu, virtu, style, trend, vogue, delicacy, discretion, culture

Derived form adjective perceptive₁

perceptiveness(n = noun.cognition) discernment - perception of that which is obscure;

is a kind of perception

Derived form adjective perceptive₂

perceptiveness(n = noun.attribute) - the quality of insight and sympathetic understanding;

Derived form adjective perceptive₂

Antonym: unperceptiveness